Memories in Music
HALF-HOUR’S light music on a Sunday evening is just what the doctor ordered, so, beginning Sunday, October 17, at 9.0 p.m., ZB stations are offering the BBC series Masters of Melody, Dad can put his feet up and Mum can keep her knitting needles flying while they listen to the orchestras of Charles Williams and Sidney Torch playing the music of Haydn Wood, Eric Coates, Montague Phillips, Richard Addinsell and Vivian Ellis. Of Haydn Wood’s two hundred or more songs "Roses of Picardy" is best known. Its melody is used as the signature tune of the series. and Haydn Wood’s music is heard in the first programme. In the Richard Addinsell programme listeners will hear his Prelude to the film Blithe Spirit, written at Noel Coward’s request-the first time music was written for one of Coward’s works by another composer; then versatile Joyce Grenfel] sings two of Addinsell’s songs, for which she wrote the lyrics and finally, Wilfred Parry (pianist) plays the popular Warsaw Concerto.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 27
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168Memories in Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 27
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