Vox Anonyma
MYRA THOMSON and H. Glaysher have returned to the 3YA air with a series based on the harp and voice combination and entitled The People Sing. In her introductory remarks Miss Thomson spoke of the vast mass of anonymous folk-song-lullabies, nursery rhymes, market, labouring and popular titual songs-selections from which she
intends presenting in these series. It is a most commendable intention. We hear too little of such music and it is for the amateur and the local talent, artists with inquiring minds and time to follow their own interests, to give it to us. In Christchurch we have several such-R, R. Beauchamp and Gerald Christeller among them-and it is good news that Miss Thomson will continue to swell their ranks. However, I was a little puzzled by Miss Thomson’s introduction; it seemed to assume the existence of too great a continuity between the most primitive folk-music and that which survives underground in. the most sophisticated industrial nations, Certainly one should not underestimate the great age of folk-music or the extraordinary power of survival its various themes and idioms possess; but Miss Thomson did seem to be laying too much stress on the Stone Age. However, she opened her programme with a lullaby sung by Australian aborigines; so her. point may have been rather the survival of the Stone Age in odd corners of the modern world,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 369, 19 July 1946, Page 14
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