SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
NE night during the’ First World War Horatio Nicholls, composer, was standing near his anti-aircraft gun listening for the drone of Gothas. "There came to me a vision of a country road flooded with sunshine, of flowers in fair fields and of roses," he says. "The last vision brought to my memory a lyric about a rose, which my. friend Morton David had sent me ‘to set to music. With this memory came the melody as the shells began to ctash. The moment the: drone of the last Gotha had died away and our last shell had been fired, I drew out my notebook and hastily jotted down the bars of the refrain that was ringing through my head." That's how the song "The Heart of a Rose" was born. SR
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 25
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135SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 25
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