Attraction of Liszt
"T HEY tell me, the great anonymous "they" with whom I have had innumerable interesting conversations, that Franz Liszt is showy and rhetorical;
but ever since I pedalled through the player-piano records, fast and slow, to suit the silent films they accompanied instead of the composer’s intention, Liszt has been in my blood. That his music has never become hackneyed for me despite this outrageous treatment points to something a little deeper, a little more solid in it than the fashion of the moment will admit to. In these opinions I would probably be supported by the pianist Louis Kentner, whose fine recording of the "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" was recently broadcast from 3YA. What I hadn’t realised until then was that my liking for the rather vulgar song which begins "Put another nickel in, in the nickelodeon" rests upon the fact that its’ composer pinched--nothing so dignified as "stolen" will do here-some of its phrases from the grand old man. I suppose the anti-Liszts will, say that it serves him right; but after hearing Anna Russell on Wagner they ought to know that no one is safe any more.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 11
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194Attraction of Liszt New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 11
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