Sullivan and Mozart
HAVE twice now heard the first instalment of the BBC programme which deals with the famous Gilbert and Sullivan partnership, the second time from my local station, 4YA, where the series has just begun. Both times, I thought the best thing about the programme was Sir Malcolm Sargent’s introduction, nor did this piece of autobiography and appreciation stale or weaken with repetition. Sir Malcolm can be held up to all radio speakers as one who, no matter how carefully prepared his material, always presents it.in a free, easy, conversational manner, and sounds as though he were extemporising his fluent periods on the spur of the moment. It is a style of delivery we should nurture among our radio speakers, many of whom sound as though they had laboured for many patient months over scripts which they present with utter lack of spontaneity. I was struck with Sir Malcolm Sargent’s suggestion that to him Sullivan’s music is very Mozartian, and that conductors who want to get the best out of it should approach it in much the same spirit as they would a Mozart opera-an idea which may strike orthodox classicists as blasphemy, but which, examined logic-. ally, will be seen to be the result of shrewd observation.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 10
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210Sullivan and Mozart New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 10
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