Inspiration
: FROM 2YC recently we hed a programme of music "inspired" by other subjects. My first reaction was that the programme organiser intended to be facetious: the Vaughan Williams "Wasps" Overture "inspired" by classical languages, Bizet’s "L’Arlésienne"’ by ‘modern languages! On hearing the
-_ broadcast I began to realise that the thing was serious. What utter nonsense! Was "L’Arlésienne" in a modern language to Bizet, or was it in the language he himself spoke, and was it the language alone which inspired him? Was Williams "inspired" by the subject
of Aristophanes’ play or by the fact that it was in Greek? Even more disastrous was "Sumer is I Cumen In," "inspired," believe it or not, by mathematics! I Pass Over in decent silence some of the other choices. It was evident that whatever "inspiration" the composers had, the programme organiser had none.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 10
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141Inspiration New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 10
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