"For Universal Exhibition"
N between "serious" and "popular" music is that indeterminate variety called "light." This is music for, entertainment, for relaxation, never subtle
but rarely vulgar. Written sometimes for the theatre, sometimes for the salon and, now and again, for the concert-hall, it is always adaptable. This is ideal music, in a utilitarian way, for broadcasting. It is the staple fare for dinner music, after dinner music, "The Masters in Lighter Mood," in fact for all times when feeling is to be uninhibited by thought. The French have always been particularly good at writing light music: Offenbach, Planquette, Auber, Massenet. Chabrier is in a slightly different class but the composition which made him famous, "Espana," written around Spanish folk rhythms, after a sojourn in that one-time glamorous country, is in the direct line of French light music. Played by Beecham and the London Philharmonic, all its verve and spontaniety emerges with a liveliness that transcends the score. This is music "for Universal Exhibition."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 8
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164"For Universal Exhibition" New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 8
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