Nymphs and Shepherd
‘THERE was a note of pardonable pride in the 2YA announcer’s voice last Saturday night as he, led before the microphone the five Cave sisters from Wanganui-Margery, Barbara, Dorothy, Ruth, and Grace. Their programme of unaccompanied songs was wholly pleasing. Though technically deriving inspiration from the Comedy Harmonists, in spirit they seemed more akin to the singers of Elizabethan madrigals, and the same spontaneous joy and effortiess grace might have been heard when "Come live with me and be my love," or "When daisies pied and violets blue" were new-minted. Even the "pretty pink floral evening frocks" which (in a burst of expansiveness almost unprecented for a national station), the announcer informed us the girls were wearing, wére transformed as I listened into stomachers and farthingales, and the common. place words of "The fairies are flitting" might almost have been "Come unto these yellow sands."’ The announcer’s interpolation at the end of each number ("You are now listening to a recital by the five Cave sisters, Margery, Barbara, Dorothy, Ruth, and Grace") fell sweetly upon the ear like the chorus of a 16th Century lyric.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 15
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188Nymphs and Shepherd New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 15
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