Fela Sowande
|F Fela Sowande’s picture in The Listener is a good likeness, we might well follow a current, ridiculous Hollywood trend and call him "The Face," for I have never seen a more delightful face, or one more caléulated to turn, your morose ill-temper into a good-
natured chuckle. It seems, by the way, that he is pronounced something .like Schwanda. Since the announcement of 4YO’s programme merely said "Negro music," I came to the mistaken conclusion that Fela Sowande would sing, and was surprised to hear the vocal parts of the programme done by a woman; I couldn’t catch her name, but the voice sounded like that of Ethel Waters. The surprise item was Sowande himself, who turned out to be an expert on the full organ (the genuine brand, not that musical monstrosity known as a Theatre or Hammond variety). The music was Fela Sowande’s own arrangements of Negro spirituals, and anything more unorthodox than "The Battle of Jericho’ as here arranged, I cannot remember hearing. After I had conquered my surprise I found the programme impressive, and will look out for more by the same artists.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 14
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190Fela Sowande New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 14
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