Classical Programme
| FEEL grateful to the programme organisers of 2YC for their Christmas night classical programme. Beethoven’s Coriolanus Overture was followed by the Eighth Symphony, and then we switchéd to the untarnished familiarity of the Nutcracker Suite, the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, and the Rosamunde Ballet Music. (I missed the Wagner because by 9.40 I had hitched my wagon, not without many a yearning backward glance, to another station, Christmas Day programmes, like Christmas pudding, are perhaps almost too plummy). But in spite of the more specific claims to Christmas suitability of many of the other programmes, to my mind the classical programme seemed far more in keeping with the Christmas spirit. The Beethoven uplifted and sustained, the Tchaikovski and the Schubert filled the mind with pleasant images and breathed forth fragrant memories of earlier hearings, and the Mendelssohn seemed to crystallise out and give poignant and pointed expression to those often woolly sentiments of Goodwill towards Men. The familiarity of thes¢ last three numbers permitted relaxation, (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) and created and sustained that mellow mood which rounds off the perfect and well-spent Christmas Day.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 394, 10 January 1947, Page 10
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