NEW KING OF QUIZ
HE first youth concert by the National Orchestra was a delight. We know by now something of James Robertson’s gifts as a conductor, but we were unprepared to find that as a quiz-master he is without peer in this country. His manner is brisk, invigorating and witty. His exuberant. high spirits must have jockeyed the sourest member of his audience (slyly addressed as "girls and boys and older girls and boys’) into a corresponding enthusiasm. The nine young men who volunteered to serve as his panel were put entirely at ease by Mr. Robertson’s friendly badinage, though I was rather sorry for the young man, who, after a short performance by saxophone and "beat dat bass," tentatively suggested that a clarinet was on the job. Mr. Robertson’s horrified "What!" would have done credit to the most classical of purists outraged by an error of taste, Mr. Robertson’s sporting gesture in allowing the orchestra to sound like a dance band was greeted with frenzied enthusiasm. At another point, the theme of the Ride of the Valkyries: was stated, and Mr. Robertson permitted himself a graceful tribute to the artist who had sung that very theme earlier in the week. "Never," he said, speaking, of course, of Anna Russell,
"has the plot of The Ring been made more , devastatingly . clear.’ Eyeryone clearly ‘hada’ wonderful timé at the concert, ;
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 10
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