CHEERS FOR CLAUSON
| SUPPOSE almost everyone this week will be writing about William Clauson. And why not? For if ever a visiting artist deserves to be known to the ordinary concert-goer, it is surely this wholly engaging and amazingly gifted Swedish-American balladist. It has been said that Anna Russell recommended him to the NZBS; it is easy to understand why, for William Clauson shares her gift for getting on the right side of an audience. Anybody who could persuade an Auckland audience-per-haps the most inhibited: of any south of Greenland-to sing the accompaniment to a Mexican song has the real entertainer’s magic. To appreciate what a superb actor, comedian and artist William Clauson is, you have to see him in the flesh. But even on the air, his flexible, smooth, well-trained voice, his exceptional enunciation and his command of many languages stamp him as a paragon among folk singers. Unlike the usual balladist, too, he is no mere strummer, but an accomplished guitarist. Few singers of any kind have such a varied repertoire-Irish, Swedish, American, even Chinese, and above all, Latin American songs, the latter high points in some of the most delightful concerts to hit the air this year.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 24
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200CHEERS FOR CLAUSON New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 24
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