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DAL-KEONG-LEE; a fascinating name, The anticipation of the broadcast from 1YX of his "Prelude and Hula" conjured up an impression of tropical imagery, the scene and expression of e people of whom we derive our ideas chiefly from over-coloured travel posters, for it would seem that Dai-Keong-Lee writes his music in Hawaii, Yet the music was a disappointment. It may be that distant fields are greenest and that it is the nostalgia of the exile which gives the sharpest picture of his home-land;-or it may be that Kipling was right and that those who have not adventured beyond their native heath may not even have adventured there. I do not know anything of the life and adventures of Daj-Keong-Lee, and he may know as little of Hawaii as I do. There certainly was nothing exotic about the music, and save for a rather obvious rhythm which may easily have been based on the hula, the music might just as well been written by the writer of any film music in any country. It was pleasant but undistinctive. Aaren Copland’s well-known "El Salon Mexico" which followed the "Prelude and Hula" has a much more authentic ring about it. Although written about Mexico by » citizen of the U.S.A., ifs rhythms and vivid colouring give a much livelier impression of local colour.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 11
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221Local Colour New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 11
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