Desert Island Programmes
J)ESERT Island Discs from 4YA continues its rather lofty course, and as far as I am concerned any of the records chosen (with one exception) would satisfy my musical taste if I were the castaway. Most of these programmes turn out to be intimate revelations of moments in the past lives of their) compéres, most of whom choose their records partly because of musical worth, and partly because of some nostalgic reminiscence of the past brought to memory by that particular music. Amon the most. delightful of these reminiécences was M. Boroyansky’s picture of himself as a very young dancer, "doing a willow-tree in Swan Lake." But it is a chastening thought that the average listener-castaway would probably jettison Bach and Mozart in their entirety, if he could salvage instead some such record as the one (in an exceptionally popular programme) I would have excluded.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 9
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148Desert Island Programmes New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 9
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