Music of the People
HO are the people? In their name much is demanded and much promised, much is excused and much forgiven. They are a statistical factor to prove many a point and settle many a disputation. Despite their. ubiquity the people still preserve a close anonymity. They are impersonal, indefinable, and therefore unsatisfiable. It was with some misgivings then that I turned to Henri Penn’s ‘presentation, "Music of the People." One might assume perhaps that these people were those from whom has come through the ages a music strong in its simplicity, and, above all, in its sincerity and truthfulness-folk music. Such, apparently, was the intention. The realisation was much less. The listener was regaled with a number of shop-worn ballads-"By the Waters of Minnetonka," "Song of the Cuckoo," "An Eastern Prayer’-wrapped up in soap opera commentary. ‘Any connection with folk music was remote. The people here represented lived among antimacassars and aspidistras in Edwardian drawingrooms,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 9
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158Music of the People New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 9
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