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‘THE first two of Owen Jensen’s programmes on The New Look in Music which I heard over 3YC, were very interesting. At times I felt like saying "Hold hard, there," because he raced beyond me, Writing may be re-read but in ‘a talk a little amplitude, a littlé reiteration or further illustration help. The way in which Mr. Jensen related modern trends in music to the anarchic expressionism of the Romantics like Coleridge or Shelley helped those who are not predominantly interested in music to follow the argument. Mr. Jensen has an easy conversational style of presentation which ‘effectively bridges the gap between the specialist and the listener, But if only to show I gave close attention to his talks there was an apparent contradiction between the way he described the long-windedness of Wagner (compared with Schubert) in the first talk; then, in the second, having suggested that the modern descended from the Romantics, illustrated the terse mod-
. ern approach by first reading from Dickens and then from a modern writer. Either modern music is mixed, some being terse. and realistic, and other pieces being in the Romantic tradition, or the whole of it is Post Romantic. But perhaps subsequent talks will clear
this up for me.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 13
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211Stream of Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 13
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