Georgian Drawing Room
"EIGHTEENTH Century life was plump and easy," said the commentator, aptly of a section of the population at least, and I thought of Fragonard, then of Reynolds and Gainsborouch. Thie wae mv intradnetion +A
what was the third of a series of four programmes for Sunday afternoons, arranged and sung by Myra Thompson, with Althea Harley-Slack at the piano. It was a pleasant quarter hour spent in the tinkling daintiness of 18th Century English music; formal but without form. The piano
tone held a suggestion of harpsichord Myra Thompson’s voice was care-free, clear, and touched with a worldly sweetness. It was obvious that the sun was shining on the gréen lawns of Ranelagh, where the songs of Thomas Arne were delighting the assembled ladies and gentlemen, and it was equally obvious that these were times when there was nothing more urgent than peaches ripening against a mellow brick wall, nothing so vulgar as a singing commercial,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 12
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159Georgian Drawing Room New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 12
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