Idle Fancy
FRIEND of mine who fancies himself as a philosophical pessimist once declared that, life being what it is, a series of trials and discomforts, happiness can be defined only by negatives. An analogous notion came to me the other evening while listening to a 1YC broadcast of Schumann’s Carnival (yes, again!). Might not an ideal week’s listening be fancied as one containing a "light classical" session in which the Overture to The Bartered Bride was not played; a week when John Charles Thomas did not ham his way through "The Open Road"; when neither Carnival nor Capriccio Italien was presented in any form whatsoever; in which an operatic programme concluded without anybody having sung "Largo al Factotum" or "The Toreador’s Song’; in which there was one comedy programme barren of Claphamndwyer and. Harry Tate; in which 1ZB completed an entire Sunday without a single work by Gershwin or Kern, and when a 1YA Saturday night studio recital featured neither -"Loye Came A-Riding" nor "When I Have Sung My Song"? An idle fancy, indeed. And what place have such idle fancies in the cold realities of radio programmes?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 534, 16 September 1949, Page 10
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189Idle Fancy New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 534, 16 September 1949, Page 10
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