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SOMETHING of a scoop was achieved by 1YC in its recent broadcast of ‘Ravel’s little opera L’Enfant et Les Sortiléges (confusingly announced as "The Child of the Sorcerers"). This work, delightfully performed by French artists, told of a naughty boy who neglects his lessons and loses his temper with the result that furniture, story-book characters, birds and trees torment and desert him, until his kindness to a wounded squirrel restores him to favour. This is the Ravel of the Mother Goose Suite rather than the Ravel of L’Heure Espagnole. The charming character songs and the amusing cat imitations and other descriptive orchestral effects" revealed that French talent for delicate and grotesque music which we find also in the work of "Les Six." This must be a terribly difficult opera to stage, with its animated armchairs and so on, but it was exceptionally easy to listen to, and a most agreeable change from familiar Wagner, Verdi and Puccini. It added a spice for me to learn that the librettist for this child-world opera was the sophisticated and subtle novelist of innocént end experienced womanhood, Colette. May we hear it again soon!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 555, 10 February 1950, Page 10
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191Scoop New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 555, 10 February 1950, Page 10
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