Musical Discoveries
Y a combination of bad luck and bad management I missed the first few Chapters in Musical Autobiography, and only caught up with the series in the talk given by Owen Jensen. This may not have been typical of the other talks in the series, but it was of sufficient interest to change idle regret for the talks missed to something mugh stronger. We may all come to music by different routes, but there is sufficient similarity in the experience to give speaker and listener-a common ground that is too often lacking in radio talks. Or perhaps I am underrating the quality of Mr. Jensen’s script, the verve with which he put it across, and the amusingly interpolated quotations ranging from virtuoso whistling and the Pagliacci sobs of Caruso to Stravinsky and Monteverdi. Whether one’s ears were opened by the Eroica played by a brass band or a school gramophone performance of Liebestraurn, the effect was the same. In his honest piece of musical autobiography, Mr, Jensen gave us back tremendous youthful experiences we had
forgotten:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 11
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179Musical Discoveries New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 11
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