Memorable Week
HE. amount of good, interesting and unusual material coming from 1YA and 1YC is greater than it has been for some years. Last week, a fairly typical one, gave me some hours of exceptionally fine listening, both in music and the spoken word. Sir Leonard Woolley’s lucid talk on the deciphering of Hittite writing, "The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs," was, I think, the talk of the week; but W. A. G. Penlington’s charmingly personal "On Being Daft" gave a different kind of pleasure. Music was rich, varied and intriguing. Layton Ring and Donald Rutherford playing Handel and Telemann works for recorder and harpsichord, and David Galbraith playing Schubert and Mendelssohn from the studio gave us grateful works to listen to. John Niles’s arrangements of folksongs in the NZBS American Composer series, Neilsen’s Fifth Symphony, and Stravinsky’s weird, plain-chanty operaballet Renard added spice to the musical offerings. But for beauty and fascination, the BBC concert version of Mozart’s opera I] Re Pastore outdid the
Test. Oy itseil, this presentation of an almost unknown work of such stature would make any week memorable. But 1YC these days does not put all its eggs in one
basket.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 10
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198Memorable Week New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 10
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