Musical Black Mass
"| HE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY," I read in the programme, "and Dinah Shore." On the face .of it this looked about as odd a combination as could well. ‘Ye imagined, though I once heard a bracket consisting of the 1812 Overture and "Love in a Bunch of Roses." As it was no doubt intended to, the oddity of the announcement led me to seek an explanation by listening at the appointed time. It then proved-as was perhaps expected — that the Chamber Music Society bears the further appellation "of Lower Basin. Street" and consists of a coterie of enthusiasts who have conceived a method of swinging on the wood-winds alone; while on the other side of the record Miss Shore warbled songs appropriate to the company. Though I missed the Ducal rattle and clang it was good swing and made amusing listening: but the most noticeable feature was the compere, who spoke with the conscious diabolism of the swing addict present in unusual measure. Surely it is time, however, that swing music was recogniséd (especially by itself) as a pleasant and normal entertainment, and its fans dropped this attitude of gentle nihilism which almost seems to take it for granted that everyone who enjoys swing is a marijuana addict. These pretences are totally unnecessary: we are more and more coming to regard swing as a regular and everyday phenoménon, with the enthusiasts letting off their fireworks in broad daylight.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 13
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