Musical Measles
recent Listener a photograph of "Musicus" of 4YA but not to be given |his real name. Since photographs are notoriously chancy things, I am not willing to bet that I do recognise "Musicus," ‘and I am willing to grant him as much |anonymity as the onlie begetter of | Shakespeare's Sonnets, about whom | Wilde wrote a fascinating story, "The | Portrait of Mr. W.S." A _ recent procompiled by "Musicus" filled 'me with delight and despair. I cannot | tell him how ravished I was by Ravel’s |"Pavane for a Dead Princess," nor how | exasperated to find it followed by "Valse Triste,’ and the Kentucky Minstrels singing "Love, Could I Only Tell Thee." Ls did discover a partial explanation in the remarks of "Musicus" himself, when he described a disease’ whith he called |, "musical measles." Sufferers from this | malady, says "Musicus," exhibit such i symptoms as exclusive Chopin-worship, | T was rather tantalising to see in a :
or a conviction that "Clair de Lune" is the most perfect melody ever written; all musicians will be able to diagnose the disease at once, except when suffering from it themselves. I can only conclude, then, that this particular programme began in perfect health, but broke out in spots halfway-spots which, I hope, will have healed completely before the next Moods in Music pro- © gramme on the air.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 10
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222Musical Measles New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 10
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