Magic from Hayda
SUPPOSE that, in one week’s listening, a large space is taken up by recordéd music which, being familiar, can be heard not critically, but for pleasure. In a week when the 1LYC programmes were rich in such things, it was a pleasure to hear Strauss’s Domestic Symphony, that work for which (as evillé Cardus piits it) lie "piit on his carpet slippets and velvet jacket," afd which thé same critic finds "curiotisly undérrated." On Friday night we had Antill’s rowdy and enlivening Cortoboreé; and later, Valighan Williams’s Sixth Symphony, with its clithak of cold, massive, lunar beauty. But most délightful -and néw, to me-was Haydn’s Eight Little Pieces for Mechanical Clocks. These evoked an enchanted world of méchanical puppets, in which jewelled nightifigalés piped for the emperof, woodeti cuckoos fluted, painted Tyfoleah dafieérs clodhopped, cafvéd grénadiers filed stiffly past, and toy merry-go-rounds tuffied /a rdndé ih miitiiature. How ple¢ant it would bé to sét one’s watch by thése piping voicés, or awaken to Hear them chirping away drowsily in
the dark.
M. K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 10
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177Magic from Hayda New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 10
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