For Castaways
[#SERT ISLAND DISCS has reached 4YA, and*»Mary Martin, lecturer in music at Otago University, began the series with an enchanting programme of her favourites. Miss Martin stated that she professed no love of splitude, and would choose only records which reminded her of scenes and events in the past-the Overture to Mozart’s Figaro serving a double purpose, reminding the castaway of nights at the opera, and also providing a perfect example of ‘Formal Balance should one feel inclined to lecture Man Friday on musical appreciation. The other records chosen represented Bach, Schumann, Tchaikovski, and Vaughan Williams. There were no vocal recordings among them-and this, in view of Miss Martin’s reasons for her choice, seemed strange-for what could be more evocative of the world the castaway has left behind than the sound of a human voice? Apart altogether from the imaginary circumstances surrounding the programme, thé music provided by Miss Martin was so much to my taste that I wish someone would invite her to compere a similar half-hour once a week ér so; apart from providing me personally with something worth listening to, this programme could then be broadcast on short-wave,. and genuine castaways who had managed to salvage their radios would have no need of gramophone records, or needles of sharpened thorns.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 441, 5 December 1947, Page 10
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215For Castaways New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 441, 5 December 1947, Page 10
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