Elvis a Legend?
HAVE seen orchestral society players swing with gusto into dance music for the members; I have seen children at.a school concert, when allowed to sing their own choice, put far more into the "Rock and Roll Waltz’ than ever they could hope to do into "Alouette"; and dimly wondered at the atavistic urges in all of us. One can condone, in a musically conservative household, the passion of a ten-year-old for Winifred Atwell, but when one realises with baffled wonder, "Is THAT Elvis Presley?" all hopelessness is expressed, and
mindedness with which one visits, say, the Exhibition of Young Artists, Yet un-understanding is not only a matter of generation, and it is well to reflect that many poetry lovers have the same marked reaction to the work of Dylan Thomas. But does music of all the arts produce the most charlatan of exponents? Only time will assess them. Since heroes such as Lindbergh now need to be explained, as film-makers have found, to the under-forties, seemingly the odds are against Elvis becoming a legend; but if the possibility seems laughable,
remember the Minotaur.
R.
F.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 20
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188Elvis a Legend? New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 20
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