Golden Wedding
|? is some years since I have read Alan Mulgan’s poem, Golden Wedding, with its nostalgic recapturing of a New Zealand rural scene and characters; and (continued on next page) —
most of the details had faded from my memory. To hear it in Barbara Jefford’s reading was to have its charm revived, and also to see in it much more than I had before..When the work is read aloud, as it demands to be, the Goldsmith influence is less apparent, and the verses flow with narrative ease. Miss Jefford’s presentation was a_ professionally expert one, intelligent, and catching most of the nuances, but, I felt, a shade cold. Somehow I think that this work needs a male reader, and a New Zealander at that, able to respond more spontaneously to the local references and atmosphere. At the same time, the gen--eral success of this lengthy reading of a poem which is so lucid and free from mannered torture, to which I listened without fatigue or flagging of interest for over half an hour, suggests that we might take on YCs‘ more often something longer than the customary poetry-
reading snippets.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 20
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193Golden Wedding New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 20
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