Diary of a Hidden Man
HAT is a connoisseur? One who knows what’s what, or one who knows what he likes?-if, indeed, there is any difference between these states of knowledge. At 3.30 p.m. on a_ Tuesday from 1YA we have a 15-minute session known. as the Connoisseur’s Diary. Spurning, apparently, the Schumann quintet and the Paganini-Brahms variations preceding 3.30, and uninterested in the Music While You Work at 3.45, and the Light Music at 4.0, our Connoisseur played us the other day a group of Ivor Novello’s songs, abridged. Of these, naturally, the main feature was "Keep the Home Fires Burning,’ that rousing song that Ivor created to please his mother, who was tired of hearing "Tipperary." But no sooner had I sized up the author of the Diary as a homeloving Welshman, than I found that he had a strong streak of gipsy in him, and that I was listening to a collection of Hungarian tunes. The confused and conflicting longings of this interesting personality become more intriguing as the weeks go by, and last time I tuned in he played us a record bearing the improbable title "With Tchaikovski in Vienna."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 11
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194Diary of a Hidden Man New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 11
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