Amateurs—God Bless 'em!
ROM 2YA recently we have had some broadcasts of pairs of performers, frequently voice and piano, in short broadcasts of music of similar type, This is an excellent kind of programme-mak-ing; players and singers are given the opportunity of organising a little unit of music which is long enough to give them/some scope. Recently we had one of these broadcasts by Dulcie Rait (soprano) and Grace Harkness (pianist). I hope neither of them will mind my saying that their broadcast was an amateur one, because I mean it as a compliment. They were playing music of the Purcell-Scarlatti period .and ‘this must have artlessness. ‘There are two kinds of» artlessness, that of the great musician whose art is so great that it conceals art, and that of the amateur who has a direct simplicity which may reach the same end. This latter was thé quality both these performers showed. There was a pleasant feeling that here were young people who were’ singing and playing simply because they thoroughly enjoyed the music. The pianist’s little slips of technique and the singer’s slight breathlessness simply accentuated the atmosphere of the happy amateur.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 495, 17 December 1948, Page 10
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193Amateurs—God Bless 'em! New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 495, 17 December 1948, Page 10
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