Metaphorically Speaking
SETTLING back to enjoy the Canadian session coriimefiorating the 84th atiniversary of that Dominion, I was swiftly disillusioned. It seems that the typical fauits of the Americans, a lack of restraint and an uncertain serise of the fitnéss of things, have swept over the border. The narrator’s voice dtipped metaphors like a Fitzpatrick Travelogue, while the full resources of the orchestra flattened everything out, from the mod-
etn adaptation of a primitive Indian theme to the later sea shanties. How much bétter this could all have been with a more discreet and exact use of metaphor; and if, for the Indian theme and the sea shanties, the proper instruments had been more in evidence. I couldn’t help thinking that 3YA’s Music at a Fiteside almost illustrated the difference between getiuine artistic selection and the Canadian ostentation broadcast by 3YC. Here the elements were (a) an old man’s voice retalling evenings in a drawing rvom just priot to the First World War, and (b) singers accompanied for the most part by a piano, Yet how vivid it all was, how seemingly © artless: not the sort of thing which allows of brilliant treatment, but, like folk songs, something very pleasant taken as a part of one’s daily life.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 10
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208Metaphorically Speaking New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 10
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