The Highwayman
WING to an excessively dramatic concert-platform’ version of Alfred Noyes’ Highwayman which I was once forced to live through, I have tended to look the other way whenever this gentleman goes by. But I am now beginning to look upon him with a less bloodshot eye, thanks first of all to A. D. Priestley, whose reading of the poem in a Friday Correspondence School session sent a shiver even through my inoculated spine, and probably resulted in an increased demand for nightlights in backblocks nurseries. And the last of my unfortunate memories were driven out when I heard the ‘Wellington Training College Choral Society singing Armstrong Gibb’s version of The Highwayman, a work which seems to me to recreate even more forcibly the emotional surge of the original. *
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 13
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130The Highwayman New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 13
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