News from a Festival
AUCKLAND'S Festival of the Arts has had unusually good coverage this year. Apart from -the expected and acceptable broadcasts of the National Orchestra concerts, Jan Smeterlin’s recitals, The Dream of Gerontius -a triumphant collaboration between Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin-and the two operas The Telephone and The Man from Tuscany, there has been a wide variety of comment on and description of such arts as can be treated only indirectly until we have television. Public symposiums on the ballet and the Wellington Unity Theatre’s. The Wild Duck, have been heard, as well as addresses at the opening of the School of Architecture exhibition and talks and viewers’ reactions at the momentous Frances Hodgkins: exhibition. The presentation of such.4essions showed. sensitive editing and an easy assimilation of lessons learnt from BBC documentaries, In each case, just enough hesitancies were left in to suggest spontaneity, but not so many as to reveal the incoherency which’ often assails even the most intelligent speaker when faced with a microphone and lacking the protection of a script.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 10
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176News from a Festival New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 10
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