Jam in the Sponge
NZBs recordings and~ studio recitals are usuelly things to .be, proud of, but BBC features remain the jam in the sponge and the meat in the sandwich, Perhaps it isn’t fair to judge programming over a holiday period, but I could not help noting that one recent Sunday and Monday, every programme I listened to, with one exception, came from the BBC. Station 1YA gave us a delightful Britain Sings feature, a Picture Parade of "The Browning Version" (having seen the film the previous evening I doubly enjoyed Michael Redgrave’s superb Crocker-Harris), a London Studio Concert which gave me my first hearing of Leigh’s Agincourt Overture; and 1YC in the evening began what seems likely to prove a worthy version of The Mayor of Casterbridge. Then on Monday the exciting potted version of Purcell’s King Arthur flooded the air with glorious music, and, so far as I could hear them, words not unworthy of Dryden. The only exception,
Auckland Entertains, was a kind of round-up of often-heard players and singers--agreeable enough, but a thought stodgy after Purcell.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 10
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183Jam in the Sponge New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 10
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