Chopin in the South
ITH five South Island stations all celebrating the centenary of Chopin’s: death on October 17, and, so far as IT could see, practically all the Northern stations studiously ignoring it, it looks: as though a cultural breach is beginning to open up between the two islands. Can it be that the South Island is becoming the home of®lost causes? Certainly Chopin has doughty defenders here. Of the four programmes I listened to, 3YA’s was much the most effective -simply because the speaker, Efnest Jenner, took up a definite, challenging point of views upon the position of Chopin in theworld of music and maintained it with engaging sincerity, He was so strong a partisan that he may have protested too much. But I much preferred this to the more elaborately arranged. programme from 4YA, in which Maurice Leech’s commentary was full of lush copybook phrases and delivered with a certain unctuousness. The infuriating trick of beginning the commentary with the music still playing and fading it out was practised several | times. Continuity is become as a god, but Koa Nees’ consistently fine playing. is too heavy a sacrifice. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 541, 4 November 1949, Page 11
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191Chopin in the South New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 541, 4 November 1949, Page 11
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