Bits of Stravinsky
RTHUR JACOBS’S talks "with musical illustrations’ on famous composers (1YC) are pleasant enough introductions. However, being more "Light" than "Third" in approach, they seem to me to suffer in their context. For a man of Mr. Jacobs’s distinction, the discussions of works and the assessments of composers appear rather elementary. I should think that most list-
eners to such a YC programme would know most of the biographical facts given and would: find little to bite on in the comments. Again, the snippets of long compositions offered by Mr. Jacobs are more tantalising than illuminating. In his Stravinsky session, we heard mere fragments of several works, and I know of nothing so disturbing as bits of Stravinsky. I look forward hopefully for the time when 1YC will give us a fullscale analysis of the Symphony of Psalms instead of "chat about Stravinsky." For all that, Mr. Jacobs has an engaging microphone manner; his voice is so like that of John Arlott that I almost expected to hear a cricket-score follow. not inappropriately. the gobbet
of The Rite of Spring.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 10
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184Bits of Stravinsky New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 10
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