As Through a Glass Darkly
HAD looked forward to hearing Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 5 in D in the Sunday afternoon contemporary composer series from 1YA. Vaughan Williams has always taken the best from the changing musical scene and used it for his own needs. His genius has ripened with the years. A spectator, as it were, of contemporary developments, his music is more lively and expressive than many of those whose work is frankly experimental. Symphony No 5, a recently written work, is the ex. pression of to-day based on a lifetime of experience. What would it say? What it said was heard as through a glass darkly. Time and the inexorable needle had but
proved the transcience of music on frecords. Pathetically distorted, the wunfamiliar music did not get across. Most of the records in this series which was apparently inherited from the American Mosquito network, have had their day.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 14
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152As Through a Glass Darkly New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 14
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