An Englishman, a Scotsman..
ERALD CHRISTELLER, whose baritone programmes prove him, it no more, one of the best selectors of interesting material among 3YA’s studio artists, went on the air the other night with a programme called "Songs of Fou: Nations." This proved to be a bracket of one English, one Welsh, one Scottish. and one Irish. None of them were the familiar specimens selected by the usual folk-song enthusiasts; they had indeed the same arranger, Arthur Somervell, and there was something, not only the "arranged" music, which lifted them out of the category of folk-music pure and simple and nearer that of more sophisticated music. The English song, which bore the rather uncompromising title of "In Cupid’s Garden," turned out an interesting specimen of the way in which the conceits of the sophisticated percolate down and become the material of popular ditties. Here was a theme as old, as literary and as fanciful as the troubadours and the Romance of the Rose, recounted in the vocabularly of Sam Weller-‘Says I, my stars and garters, now here’s a pretty go." The fact is that there is a continuity of history in even the most ephemeral kinds of popular music and a regular listener, who has to hear a good deal of ephemera, can diversify his leisure and find his imagination stimulated by tracing their origins.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 15
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225An Englishman, a Scotsman.. New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 15
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