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URELY one of the most valuable things about radio Picture Parades and musical excerpts from films, is the warning they provide, albeit unconsciously, against the films they feature. More than once I have been spared two hours of ennui by hearing an ostensible plug for a forthcoming movie, usually, I’m interested to note, on theoretically advertisement free Sundays. Now, thanks to the ZB preview of music from Kismet, last weekend, I shall be another half-crown in pocket. Edward Knoblock’s rickety old Oriental play has been turned into a "musical" by the economical procedure of plagiarising the (continued on next page)
music of Borodin wholesale, and setting to the melodies some imitation Cole Porter lyrics. I’ve sometimes felt: that we might hear the Polovtsian Dances a little less often in dinner music and other sessions, but I’d cheerfully hear them every day rather than endure again Kismet’s perversions, "Not Since Nineveh" and "Stranger in Paradise." Nice work if you can get away with it -this kind of thing-but nauseating if one happens to like Borodin. I can hardly wait until they do King Lear over with the help of the Nutcracker Suite.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 20
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193Borrowed Din New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 20
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