The Old, Old Fashion
HE texture of genius is woven out of many threads. What might have been a fine pattern, lacking some quality, becomes nothing more than shoddy. "The old, old fashion-Death. Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, of Immortality." I was reminded again of the insubstantiality of fame when I listened to Storace’s "The Pretty Creature" sung by John Dowling from 1YA. Poor Stephen Storace. Say that again-Stephen Storace. The name itself has a sad forgotten sound. Storace was a contemporary of Mozart, of whom he was a friend. Like Mozart he had been an infant prodigy, touring Europe at an early age with his sister. He becane famous for his operas. A string quartet he had written was played by an ensemble which included _ both Haydn and Mozart. Like Mozart, he offered a gambit to immortality by dying young. He moved with the great and they thought well of him. Now he is forgotten except for the occasional performance of a few fragile airs.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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173The Old, Old Fashion New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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