GILBERT AND SULLIVAN.
Sir.-When rather acid criticism seems often the order of the day among the very clever people who deal with the efforts of programme producers, I should like to voice the feelings of a crowd of quite ordinary listeners and express our appreciation of the work done by those who arranged the recent broadcast of the BBC series, Gilbert and Sullivan. Many years have passed since, as a youth, the writer received his introduction to a theatre wher. he saw The Mikado at the Savoy in London. ‘The recent broadcast will have helped many New Zealanders to : capture the thrill of wholesom: fun. that the genius of those masters of music and verse brought to English people through a long series of years. At the las: broadcast we said farewell with. something of a lump in the throat to Sullivan and Gilbert, whose artistic greatne we realised as we had not done fore. What a gift they were and are to British people. We in this country are the richer for having had brought to us in so masterly a way the story of their lives and their achievements.
W.J.
D.
(Eastbourne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 5
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194GILBERT AND SULLIVAN. New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 5
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