Signifying Nothing
PAGANINI — ROMANTIC VIRTUOSO," an NZBS production heard from 2YA the other Sunday night, lasted an hour and a-quarter, and got nowhere. It was a curious blend of fact and fiction, realism and romanticism. It was at times powerful, but rarely comprehensible. At 10.46 when the programme concluded, the gratitude I had felt during the early part for the rich store of violin recordings (by artist or artists unknown) had’
been overlaid by my failure to grasp the _central theme of the production, and annoyance at the circumlocution and pawkiness of the dialogue. The script is full of clichés such as "wiser counsels prevailed," "suffering from a dread disease," and, when the young Paganini turns to take a second look at a pretty girl, "something in him was awakening
-he knew not what." No attempt seems to have been made to evaluate Paganini’s artistic contributién; there is merely the attempt to illustrate his artistic temperament. And I am at a loss to explain why the production ended at "So passed the great Paganini out of England,’ when it would have been so much more logical to have escorted him out of this world.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 10
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194Signifying Nothing New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 10
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