Corroboree a la Cugat
HE moment when one emerges be‘mused, from the final movement of John Antill’s Corroboree (heard from 2YA the other day) is perhaps not the
best time to write about it, but on the other hand it is not the type of music
likely to flash upon the inner ear several mornings after. My first thought after the experience is one of deep thankfulness to the BBC for the services of their announcer, for with-
out him I should have felt myself to be sadly buffeted by elemental forces of which I knew nothing (I must also pay tribute to the article on Corroboree in the current Listener). As it was, I merely felt myself to be buffeted by elemental forces. But I will not go so far as to say that the buffeting was an unpleasant experience. There are people who go out in gales just for the fun of it, and if you find yourself in the middie" of a really exciting gale, filled with wild rhythms and strange bird noises and wondrous sound effects (produced by odd instruments such as bull-roarers and something made from a gum-branch thoughtfully white-anted) then the obvious thing to do is accentuate the primitive, and glory in it. After all, you'll get plenty of meditation music in your listening life. I *
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 8
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222Corroboree a la Cugat New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 8
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