Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
LUCK’S "Orpheus and Eurydice" was broadcast from 2YA recently and I listened very carefully for the barking dogs-three of them or three heads any-way-which so troubled both commentator and readers some little while ago. It
was no doubt this hoarse baying which gave to the description of which the opera was an illustration the flavour of a sports commentary. There may be arguments in favour of an impassioned elaboration of the plot in a broadcast of one of those modern operas where feelings run high and voices and orchestra are mixed so inextricably as to need elucidation but the remote and serene music of Gluck needs nothing to explain its simple beauty nor any assistance to elevate the spirit, least of all anything melodramatic.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 327, 28 September 1945, Page 12
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128Let Sleeping Dogs Lie New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 327, 28 September 1945, Page 12
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