Pomp and Aspiration
BELIEVE, although not to the extent of mentioning it in musical company, that "Land of Hope and Glory" is a rattling good tune. The stigma of jingoism has been applied to it, it has been called hackneyed; all of which does not disguise the fact that it has something which numbers of equally popular tunes just haven’t got-possibly the fact that it was written by Elgar has something to do with it. But who is the soprano who has dared to make a record of it with the impudent addition of a high descant? (1 heard this from a Dunedin station one Sunday morning, but didn’t catch the singer’s name.) Also, isn’t it about time that someone realised that certain words which were added to Elgar’s tune don’t quite fit in with UNO aspirations? Confidence in the British foreign policy would scarcely be felt by any delegate from another nation who heard our stentorian sopranos declaiming, "Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set. God Who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet." We can imagine a foreign delegate dubiously murmuring, "At whose expense?"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 360, 17 May 1946, Page 10
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188Pomp and Aspiration New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 360, 17 May 1946, Page 10
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