Musical Topography
REFERRED earlier in these columns to the 3YA "Music from the Map" series and suggested that they might be better for a little more plot. Since that, however, doubts have crept in. Variety of the places treated would plainly be ‘an advantage and it seems a question whether these programmes, if given unified treatment, would not revolve round half-a-dozen localities. If we consider the areas of the earth’s surface made especially famous by musical allusion and theme, some curious facts corne to light. Paris and Vienna; neither having much cause to delight in the picture presented to the world by song-writers. Hawaii? Unspeakable. The Western parts of the United States? Devon? and the ports more closely associated with Sir Francis Drake? In each case a rathe: likable legend is perpetuated in song, but would the originals recognise themselves? Nostalgia is not one of the most admirable or creative emotions. The fac: is that certain areas have become musical clichés. Moreover, if a more rigid method of selection should be exercised
and only those pieces of music played which have an individual and interesting relationship with the place concerned, the programmes would have little more geographic or musical unity than they already possess. Nevertheless, the spirit of place in music would make an interesting study-but probably not in a "For My Lady" session.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 14
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