A Little Less Spice Please
ARIE LY, »they say, is the spice of life and, maybe, of radio programmes too; but sometimes a little unity is a good thing. The first part of 1YA’s Wednesday evening programme has long been given over to chamber musican hour and a-quarter, taking off the time for "News and Commentary from the United States’"-this station’s only evening music of the kind each week. Chamber music enthusiasts may therefore feel a little hardly done by when their weekly ration is broken into by the unbridled cheerfulness of Bishop’s "Lo, Here the Gentle Lark." On August 22 the Wednesday programme which commenced with a Mozart Piano Sonata played by Tracy Moresby (the Britten Michelangelo Sonnets had been on earlier, but they were before the commentary and therefore lost to the programme) continued with a fine display of vocal virtuosity by Madame Zelanda. Mozart, Bishop, and Walton whose quartet concluded the programme are all cheerful fellows, but apart from the fact that Bishop and his kind are not chamber music-nor for that matter is the Studio Orchestra which accompanied Madame Zelanda — such a complete change of mood is a spice that does not enrich the flavour, but destroys it altogether, They used to say also: Everything in its place and a place for everything.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 324, 7 September 1945, Page 8
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217A Little Less Spice Please New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 324, 7 September 1945, Page 8
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