The Wrong Filling
example of a programme unimaginatively arranged was a recent Saturday night when three singers broadcast from the 4YA studio. . The selections of the two women singers, Betty Naylor and Alison Tyrie, contained examples by the best modern British composers of songs. Miss Naylor gave us Armstrong Gibbs, Bantock, and Quilter. Miss Tyrie’s recital was better still, since it contained four fine songs by composers whose works are not often represented ‘on radio programmes, and for this reason her programme is worth quoting in full-‘"Epitaph" (Besley), "Close Thine Eyes" (Plumsted), "Beauty" (Herbert), "Defiled is my Name" (Greville). It is interesting to note that the words of the second song are by Charles the First, and the words of the last by the ill-fated Anne Boleyn; also that ,these two settings are by women composers. These four unusual’ and beautiful songs can be recommended to singers searching for something "different" and also worth while. But what was the point of sandwiching in between these carefully-chosen groups of items a bracket, by. a third singer, of very ordinary ballad-type songs, which by contrast seemed even more banal than such songs usuallv do?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 9
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192The Wrong Filling New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 9
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