The Easy Way
A PLATTER of sheeps’ hearts on a butcher’s counter gives us a very good idea of what a flock of sheep looks like and saves us the trouble of trekking into the country to view the animal as a whole. Anyone who quarrels with the above statement will probably dislike a
record now frequently heard in otherwise respectable sessions. It is called "The Heart of the Symphony." It begins with the first movement (abridged) of Beethoven’s Fifth, slides into~a fragment of Schubert’s Unfinished, dips into Brahms, Franck, Tchaikovski and so on. To know this record is a liberal educa-tion-as liberal, anyway, as we can afford if we are pressed for time and our powers of concentration shattered. The other arts are lagging behind music in adapting their great works for busy people, though I find that Professor Walter Murdoch has made a start on poetry, rearranging it so that it is guaranteed not to strain the mind:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 8
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160The Easy Way New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 8
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