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E do net hear very much on New Zealand stations of the general and significant activity among the creative arts which is reported to be going on in Britain at present, but a welcome exception to the rule was afforded when 3YA broadcast the other Sunday the music of Bliss’ ballet "Checkmate." This was dramatic, explosive, and exciting, and the narrative, though supplied in the good old "Music from the Theatre" manner madé familiar to us by many a recorded opera, made it possible to. see a little of how the music was related to the action in what appears to be the especial intimacy of choreography. The ballet story was a symbolic contest between Love and Death (the latter victorious), cast in the form of a chess battle between Red and Black armies with kings, queens, knights, and bishops. The tragic plot was depicted in violent, turbulent, but never melodramatic sound; and one tried vainly to imagine the part it played in the whole-a form of art of which we in this country have seen nothing, the modern ballet. Meanwhile let us hear more such music with narratives, since some inkling of the art is better than nothing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 386, 15 November 1946, Page 15
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