Too Much Pace
RCHESTRAS, especially what are known as "light orchestras," often make the mistake of playing songs arranged for instruments. This is legitimate if the arrangers remember that the music was intended to be sung, but unfortunately most of these arrangements go at a breakneck pace and without regard for the original’ phrasing. I heard Elgar’s "Shepherd’s Song" done in this way recently, and I am sure anyone attempting to sing with the orchéstra would have subsided, gabbling and incoherent, long before the end of the first verse-not to mention the mental anguish of hearing the violins ending a phrase in the middle of a word, and the impossibility of getting in a breath during the gasping mad rush. For those listeners who don’t know the song, this wouldn’t matter; but for those who do, it is exasperating.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 9
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139Too Much Pace New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 9
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