He Liked What He Knew
HAT are the musical tastes of a freezing works employee? "Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen," Schubert’s "Winter Journey," "Excelsior," or "Sumer Is
TIcumen In"? No, none of these,, The freezing works employee who broadcast from 2YA in the session "I Know What I Like" made a simpler if more eclectic selection — "Maid of the Mountains," minuet from "Berenice," "Waltzing Matilda," "Devotion" of Schumann arranged by Liszt, and "Lord Randal." True, he made it clear that he had no Treason to believe himself representative of freezing works employees in the matter of music, which brings us to the point: Can you tell a man’s tastes by his work these days? Time was when you knew a sailor by his shanties, a ploughboy by the tunes he whistled, and even poachers had songs to sing. Nowadays the sailor has a portable gramophone in the fo’c’sle with anything from Bing Crosby to Sibelius, the ploughboy is secretary of the local choral society, and the poacher probably writes arrangements for a swing band. This is the result of education, Our freezing works employee made a good job of his session and brought out at least one important point. His choice, he told us, was based on past associations. In other words, not only did he know what he liked but he liked what he knew; and that is important.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 8
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230He Liked What He Knew New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 8
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