The Russell Version
HAVE a delicious fear that Anna Russell (in her programme "Hints | to Concert Singers") has done for sing- | 5 . ii ae
ing what Sellar and Yeatman did for history-made her own version of it completely memorable. I shall never again listen to leider without hearing that superb voice intoning; "The words are a bit-well-soggy, but the music is’ magnificent"; or hear a booming basso without the Russell reflection, "Some people shave resonance where their brains ought to be," or a modern song without the enjoyable suspicion that the singer has benefited from Miss Russell’s advice to the tone-deaf vocalist, "The more off-key you are the more contenporary it sounds." The whole programme was a riot from start to finish. There is something aesthetically thrilling about devastation when it’s deftly done, and it was an experience, to hear that magnificent voice rampaging through the whoie vocal field. And I loved the occasional graceless chuckle that betrayed the. fact that Miss Russell is not yet completely immunised to her own wit.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 11
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174The Russell Version New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 11
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