Fast Work, Slow Movement
"T SAY, I’m sorry to worry you, but would you mind whistling for me the second movement of the Dvorak ’Cello Coricerto?" "I beg your pardon?" "I gaid, would you be good enough to whistle me the second movement of the Dvorak ’Cello Concerto? Surélys you know it?" "Yes, but I don’t go about all day whistling ‘cello concertos." "Well, what about playing it over on a récord and then whistling it to me? I'll ring back in five minutes. It’s the slow movemént, you know. The member of 2YA’s staff who had been on the receiving end of this telephone call, found the recording, murmuring to himself, "slow movement: it had better be." He played. it over, refreshed his memory with the theme ahd waited for the caller to ring agaifi. In exactly five minutes the melodyseeker was there. "Did you manage to find that second .... .?" "Yes, here it is," and 2YA’s progfamme department man performed into the mouthpiece. "Thanks awfully," said the caller. "A friend of mine who wanted to remémber it, and couldn’t, has been torturing himself over that tune all the week-end. Now I'll be able to whistle it to him, rag? put him out of his misery. Thanks a lot."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 14
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209Fast Work, Slow Movement New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 14
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