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AD anyone ever suggested to me that I would be able to listen with something approaching pleasure to a programme of music containing "Can I Forget You?" "Nola," "Come Back to Sorrento" and "Jealousy," I should have been more than mildly sceptical. Yet this is just what happened when I caught my first Four Strings and a Piano session from 1YA one recent Tuesday. This fifteen-minutes of competently-played light music struck me as being one of the smoothest offerings I have heard for some time, despite’ the abysmal triteness of the material used. The reasons for my pleasure were mainly the neat, unobtrusive team-work of the quintet, the ingenious revitalizing arrangements of Oswald Cheesman (for instance, his pizzicato adaptation of the hoary "Nola"), and the better than average singing of Phyllis Smith, which even conquered what sounded like a badly placed microphone. It would hardly be possible to find music much "lighter" than this group presented, yet the total impression was by no means one of triviality-which shows what prodigies good musicianship can perform,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 548, 23 December 1949, Page 10
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176Neat Work New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 548, 23 December 1949, Page 10
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