Affinity for Threes
STATION 2ZB’s Concerted Vocal session heard recently gave listeners a programme by the Vienna Boys’ Choir, triumphantly concluded by the ever-on-tap Blue Danube. Since these recordings were made the voices of the boys who made them have deepened and blurrea, but the Blue Danube flows on unchanging, unwithered by age, and unstaled even by the arranger’s custom of slipping in a recording to fill a gap betweer. race or election results. Musing on the extraordinary and deserved popularity of the Blue Danube I was led to wonder whether the human ear might not have an affinity for threes similar to that felt by the human soul for the mystic number. The waltz form seems to hold sway in the light classical field, and I should think that a list of most-frequently heard recordings would include On Wings of Song, Il Bacio, and Invitation to the Dance (to say nothing of our Blue Danube). When we come down to the field of popular music it seems again as though waltzes have a better chance of survival than mere foxtrots, though they may, like Tithonus, enjoy mere longevity as opposed to eternal youth.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 10
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194Affinity for Threes New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 10
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