THE MIDDLE WAY
|_AST night (March 27) on 1YC we reached the seventeenth talk in Augusta Ford’s series on the folk song, and | look back over seventeen weeks of enjoyment. Mrs. Ford has never tried to be startling, has never tried to "sell" folk song to her listeners, but her talks have been a gold-mine to those interested in the simple art of unsophisticated peoples. We began with the early history of folk music and are now on more "specialist" topics like the recurrence of the Robin Hood theme; nothing has been omitted, and all has been presented in a most sympathetic manner. When half our radio programmes have a bias towards soap-opera and the rainbow bubbles of hit-tunes and the other half are presented for our edification it is a tonic to follow a programme of the middle way. Not all the sentimentality of the world goes into the popular hits, and not all the ort is found in highly polished forms. Could we not have more studies of folk art? It is so much closer to the life of yours truly, Everyman.
M.A.
C.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 10
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231THE MIDDLE WAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 10
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