Sea Music
NDER the heading of Walt Whitman Suggests Sea Music, 3YA recently presented a programme of verse and music. ‘The music, however, was
very much more in evidence than the verse-the latter being confined to quotations in the nature of chapter headings before each item, And as chapter headings they served their purpose excellently; one noticed, approved, and forgot them in what followed. This is subordinate sort of work for poetry to do, and I emerged from the programme satisfied with the music but wondering where Whitman had got to. But as a method of presenting a number of musical compositions of similar subject, and of linking them together, the method has much in its favour. It is unnecessary to press the corinection between the music and the verse too far, however; one man’s "Flying* Dutchman" may very well be another’s "Submerged Cathedral" where Whitman or anyone else is concerned. As a programene it has the advantage of dppealing to those who like Whitman but not Wagner, as well as to those who like Wagner but not Whitman. And if you happen to like both, so-much the better; you will not mind if, as in this case, the assorted sea music is merely punctuated with Whitman.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 422, 25 July 1947, Page 9
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207Sea Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 422, 25 July 1947, Page 9
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