No Fatal Results
T’S a dangerous proceeding to try to bring a fantasy to life, of which truth the Emett railway at the Festival of Britain provided an almost allegorical instance. It was just too real-one day two of the trains collided and a passenger was killed. I listened to the Hoffnung Music Festival with some foreboding therefore, not expecting any such literally fatal result, but wondering what fancies might be killed. Few were-reality was kept firmly at bay. It would have been more fun to be there, of course. To hear the occasional drone of vacuum cleaners and floor polishers during Malcolm Arnold’s "Grand, Grand Overture," was not as delirious as it must have been to see them, and I'd never believe Dennis Brain was really playing on a hosepipe unless I saw it. The roars of laughter
at unaccountable places at least proved that London musicians will fool visually and London audiences laugh at them for) it, which some ‘here denied not so long ago. I was a little uneasy when Peter Harcourt said, in his witty and urbane commentary, that Hoffnung "exposed the pretensions of the symphony orchestra," suggesting that this was Satire with a Serious Purpose. I am sure it was nothing of the kind.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 30
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209No Fatal Results New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 30
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