Good Boy
HAVE heard some very good programmes in Gramophan’s J. Pulled Out a Plum series from 2YA. I particularly liked two items heard a week ot two ago, one a new arrangement of Greensleeves by Richardson, the other an air, "There sheep may safely graze" from a secular cantata, arranged by Constant Lambert and William Walton,
This Friday, however, some of the plums were a little over-ripe. There was perhaps tgo much sweetness in Jeanette Macdonald’s rendering of "Annie Laurie" and "Coming Through the Rye," and "Song of the Volga Boatmen" and "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" have lost their freshness through overmuch handling. But Gramophan’s comments have the merit of arousing interest in even the stalest offerings, and I enjoyed my Annie Laurie much more through having learnt that she was a real person, that she did not marry the William Douglas who wrote the song for her, but someone with less talent and more money, and that she lived to the age of 83.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 14
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166Good Boy New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 14
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