A Song But No Saga
EAD men tell no tales;. and, unfortunately, make no complaints. I do not know who concocted "Song of Norway," an operetta on the life and music of Grieg, music from which was broadcast recently from 2YA. I do not know where it has been or will be performed, whether on the stage or in the cinema; but I hope I shall never have to endure sitting through it. Here is music by Grieg, splendid in its lyric spontaneity, put through a sort of sausage machine by some arranger with more enterprise. than responsibility. The individual character which distinguished respectively the piano concerto, the lyric pieces and the songs is lost in the mediocrity of commercial rehashing. This is a form of deliberate plagiarism which ought to be firmly suppressed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 330, 19 October 1945, Page 9
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134A Song But No Saga New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 330, 19 October 1945, Page 9
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