Pickwick Polka
HE experiment tried by the BBC in its recorded readings from Pickwick Papers, heard from 3YL on recent Sundays, of having musical accompaniment to unashamed and unqualified prose, seems to me unjustified. It is a confusion of the genres, specially deplorable because English narrative prose does not conform to or parallel the musical structure, with the result that the two kept falling over each other. "Mr. Pickwick’s Ride to Muggleton" was thus punctuated with the cheerfully monotonous' tootling of a coach horn, and his altercation with Mr. Tupman at the ball in Dingly Dell was conducted against a background of "Sir Roger de Cover-ley"-not that this mattered much to me, because I generally find dance music hostile to other forms of human activity, and it was easy to imagine Mr. Pickwick shouting freezing remarks
above the all-obtrusive tinkle of the band. I wait with some trepidation for the next in this series, to find what is considered suitable music to characterise "Mr. Pickwick on the Ice." I am so far hesitating betwéen the Ride of the Valkyries, A Night’ on Bald Mountain, and The One Hoss Shay.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 8
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189Pickwick Polka New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 8
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