No Fatted Calves
ETURNED from a hol:day in another island, I study the programme columns in The Listener with a view to resuming the normal thread of a commentator’s existénce. While there are not a few things I regret missing, the broadcasts immediately past and immediately forthcoming arouse in me none of the prodigal’s emotions. Operatic titles translated into English exert their fainiliar, slightly horrible, fascination. Someone is still singing "Heavenly Aida"; someone else, Indian Love Lyrics; someone else _ stil? playing "Pomp. and Circumstance March, No. A 6 tanted that a member of our holiday company had a gramophone which made Tchaikovski’s Andante Cantabile sound | ke the "Song of the Volga Boatmen" played on a mouth-organ, and "The Lost Chord" by Arthur Sullivan sound like "The Lost Chord," by Arthur Sullivan; still there was about this a certain bizarrerie which nothing I am likely to hear from the NZBS will equal. In short, the holidays are over, and we are now back to the common round. But not quite; there’s sap in’t yet; and we have at least had excerpts from Peter Grimes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 10
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183No Fatted Calves New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 10
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