Armchair Listening
ISTENING on the radio to :a singer ~ of the artistic calibre of Angela Parselles, one can’t help feeling a little guilty. It is so nice to hear a concert artist. from the depths of one’s armchair, but the thought. persists that all this is much too. comfortable, and that for the proper appreciation of music, the wide-awake awareness engendered by a hard seat in a concert-hall is really ipdispensable. Armchait-sitters are puBished for the sin of sloth, however, when the broadcast ends after a too-brief excerpt from the singer’s programme, and they are left wanting more, and without the means to gratify their wish. After. Miss Parselles had sung her bracket of Brahms and Richard. Strauss, I certainly felt a mild animosity that 4YA must thereupon go on to other fare;
fa voice of great beauty, used with such artistry and restraint, comes" our wiy too seldom.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 10
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149Armchair Listening New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 10
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