Owen Jensen
\JHEN Owen Jensen said good-bye to Auckland listeners this week, many of them, like myself, must have realised =
suddenly what a gap his translation will leave in local broadcasting. We all have a tendency to take familiar things, however good, for granted, and, although Owen Jensen was too alive, too full of new tricks and angles, ever to degenerate into a mere institution, we had become so accustomed to his breezy voice that it will be now as if a long-known lake, with ever-changing surface, has been drained to make way for the monotonous variety of State houses. His ability to take anything in his stride, his lucid, but never patronising, explanations, his rapid-fire patter, his "Here-listen-to-this-isn’t-it-good?" attitude, will all be sadly missed> Even when one felt he was slightly off the beam, as in his patronising of Elgar, one knew that what he said was the fruit of his own musical experience, and not a distant echo of Tovey or Scholes. Tuesday night from 1YC will be a little flat for a timehaunted by the memory of an _ infectiously enthusiastic musical leprechaun,
J. C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 10
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188Owen Jensen New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 10
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