When Winter Comes
_ I HAD meant for some weeks to sample the 4ZB session Landscape in Words and Music, but didn’t get a chance to do so until the programme _ entitled "Winter is Kind." After this episode I doubt if I shall still be listening when Spring comes, no ‘matter how far behind it may be. I found the programme woolly. First, there were the words, which meandered along on uneven course. Not-very-inspiring descriptions of rain, trees, flowers, storms, and so on, were mixed up with appeals to the listener (think, for instance, how Central
Australia would appreciate the rain, if it’s too wet for your own, taste), and statements about nature' which were either elementary (the rain is the culmination of a cycle which begins in the rivers and sea), or demonstrably untrue (only dead and withered branches are
snapped by the wind), Then there was the music, which was excellent, except that we couldn’t hear it because the voice spoke through it and the music was tuned almost to inaudibility. This session could have been a good one if passages from standard authors and poets had superseded the commentary, and’ the music had not been obscured by the speaker’s voice.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 8
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202When Winter Comes New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 8
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