WORDS AFTER MUSIC
HE newly-established custom of reading a poem or two during the iriterval of a concert hall broadcast is singularly appropriate. First, it is so different from the music that it makes a real "spell," and does not intrude upon the form of the main proeramme. Secondly; the music _ predisposes one to listen to poetry. "Evening Walk," by Charlotte Bronté,; read by John V. Trevor during the Solorhon broadcast froti 3YC, brought the charm of a little-kfiown poem to a wider ptiblic, Here arid thére, I corifess, the poem’s insisterice on thteé consecutive rhyriies at the 6nd of long lines cast my mémory back to Cyril Fletcher’s "odd ode" where the too obvious device has an Amusing ring, and some of the rhymes which Mr. Trevor so neatly weighed and delivered demanded all his considerable skill if they were to succeed. On the other hand, the length of the poem and the cumulative effect of the successive images from deepening night slowly pervaded the imagination with all the delights of evénfng. Since the poem is not readily accessible I hope we shall hear it again some time, read by Mr. Trevor.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 770, 23 April 1954, Page 10
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193WORDS AFTER MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 770, 23 April 1954, Page 10
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