Castaway
PRESUMABLY it is now vieux jet to suggest the possibility of leaving gramophone needles or reading glasses on one’s kitchen table- back home; the quibble was probably raised when the first reading list and the first selected recordings were compiled, possibly when the Ark first rested on Ararat. Yes, the first southerlies have been felt in the
programme compiler’s headquarters and they have made glad escape to their Desert Islands. Well suited to her role as first castaway was Miss Helen Gard’ner, who presented her six selected recordings from 2YA on a recent: Thursday night, Miss Gard’ner’s list sounded a note of praiseworthy individualism, I myself would find the La Bohéme seleotions infmitely wearisome at fiftieth repetition, and Peter Dawson’s The Little Admiral at second hearing. But (as Miss De Havilland won an Academy Award for saying) To Each His Own, and one man’s coconut-milk is another man’s kava. Her Bach selection, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, few will disagree with, since to all musical desert island lists Bach is both Bible and Shakespeare. And I thoroughly approved the inclusion of Reginald Gardiner’s (no, no kin) discourse on trains. Miss Gard’ner gave as her reason the necessity for hearing a cultivated English voice. I enjoyed hearing a cultivated English train.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 8
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