Manuel de Falla
SOMETIMES an accidental arrangement of programmes produces unanticipated results. Station 4YO’s programme featured "Spanish Composers" for the night of November 15, and by strange and appropriate coincidence, this programme happened to be on the evening when the press announced the death of Manuel de Falla, one of Spain’s most vital’ composers. The Spanish idiom, known. to most listeners only through popularised versions of dance tunes and rhythms, is no new influence in music; even Scarlatti is said to have come under its influence while on Court service in Spain. Audiences who know Falla only through various piano virtudsi’s renderings of his "Ritual Fire Dance" (and every visiting pianist seems to have it tucked away in his or her sleeve, awaiting the final encore) will do well to widen the scope of their knowledge by listening to all this composer’s works whenever they are on the radio, The programme from ‘4YO was a good example of representative Spanish music, including as it did, Falla’s "Nights in the Gardens of Spain," and music by Turina, Nin, Albeniz, and Cascado.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 11
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180Manuel de Falla New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 11
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