Burns Night
N Dunedin it is unsafe to put on.a Burns programme unless one is prepared for carping criticism from people such as myself, wha canna thole Burns unless he is done according to their own dogmatic standards. I like Burns songs, when written in dialect, to be sung in dialect, and any ladylike performance in English by a singer of either sex is apt to meet with my stern disapproval. There are few performers, not possessed of a natural Scottish accent, who can ape it convincingly; and even more reprehensible than a Scottish poem done into English is a Scottish poem done half into English, the rest being given what is considered an authentic air by the introduction of a few "ains" and. "herts" and "buddys." The only performances which pleased me entirely in the short programme of Burns Songs from 4YC were those of "Duncan Gray" and "Oo ustle an’ I’ll Come Tae Ye." There was also, I thought, too much comment of the innocuous sort that spoils a programme; the listener always has the feeling that if the announcer
hadn’t been required to say so much, we might haye had time for another song.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 10
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197Burns Night New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 10
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