Much Mozart
HE danger of centenaries of composers, as we celebrate them nowadays, is that at the end of the relevant year, we are likely to become heartily sick of the music of the honoured one. As the Duke says in Patience: ‘Toffee in moderation is a capital thing. But to live on toffee-toffee for breakfast, toffee for dinner, toffee for tea .. . how would you like that?" I felt that the actual date of Mozart's birth was allowed to slip by comparatively unmarked on the racio; but since tien it’s pretty clear that we are in for a feast of Mozart, to become an orgy as overseas bicentennial recordings come to hand. I think my own enthusiasm will survive the flood, but only if radio Mozart is presented with chasers of Brahms and Milhaud, In the meantime, I am enjoying the 1YC Mozart programmes arranged by Owen Jensen, each so far offering some unfamiliar compositions. It is pleasant to hear Mr. Jensen in full cry again. He seems to me to be quite incomparable in his own field of popular musical exposition. Perhaps only he could get away with elaborately introducing a work for a Mozart programme, and then wincing up by telling us that nobody knows for certain whether Mozart wrote it or not!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 19
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215Much Mozart New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 19
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