Where's Banjo?
""T-HE Man from Snowy River" is generally accepted as a typical product of Australian narrative poetry of the late 19th century -the cheerfully primitive theme, the thumping unabashed cliché,
the metre drawn from debased balladry, the real energy ard simplicity that corresponded to something well-rooted in the life of the people who read it. But what has become of all this in "The Man from Snowy River,’ a modern fantasy by Trevare, played by George Trevare and his Concert Orchestra from 3YA one Saturday? The music is of the lesser cinematic kind and closely resembles that employed in Fitzpatrick travelogues to inform the audience that they are lodking at hills; the choral interludes deal with the mysterious horseman of the poem in a metre not much resembling the original; and nothing of the narrative can be detected. I think that probably Mr. Trevare was trying to express some abiding spirit, a sort of Snowy River essence and legendary quality. Unfortunately, he does fot convince one that it is there in the first place, though the aim is interesting as a sympton of Australian cultural problems.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 12
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187Where's Banjo? New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 12
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