Troubadour
‘| HE line of troubadours never quite dies out. Their day, one learns, was from 1100 to 1300, when bands of them roamed round Europe, living on their wits and singing for their supper. The word troubadour, like’ its near relation trouvére, means simply finder, and that’s what they were; snappers up of trifles often unconsidered, and whipped up into agreeable entertainments. Well, the line may be a thin one, but it’s certainly not extinct. We had Burl Ives here a few years ago enchanting large audiences, and now we have a younger member of the guild visiting us under the auspices of the NZBS: William Clauson. I could not help feeling, listening to the broadcast of his first Auckland concert, what a jolly chap he is! For charm and vivacity, we have not heard his equal for many years. If I had been, say, the Duke of Langeudoc in 1189 and Guillaume de Clauzon had arrived with wares like these, I would have sat him at the high table. He had the audience ‘singing joyously in two parts at the end of his recital, while he improvised a most taking air above them. Welcome, Messire Troubadour. Stay awhile.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 25
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199Troubadour New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 25
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