Galicia
DON’T know who Nina Epton is, nor how it came about that her two programmes on Spain, illustrated with recordings she had made there, were evidently compiled in New Zealand. All I can say is that is is our great good luck. The first, on Galicia, was quite the most unexpected radio pleasure I’ve had for a long time. There were remarkable contrasts in the sounds she brought us. The mixture of Spanish, Moorish and Celtic elements in the population gave us dances that sounded like Spain, other dances played on the bagpipes which sounded like Scotland in the sunshine, Orient-ish songs: accompanied on a tea-tray, choral singing that might have been Slav. And
she gave us other sounds, too: the shriek of a Galician ox-cart, the babble at a beach picnic which was also a fertility rite. Her own script was witty, observant, informative, and admirably
delivered. The whole had the extraordinary effect on this untravelled Pig Islander of making me homesick for a country so unlike home. I suppose one (continued on next page)
reason for the attraction of Spain is that it’s strange enough to be fascinating but not so strange as to be incomprehensible -at first sight, anyway.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 913, 8 February 1957, Page 12
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