Nights of Spring
JEVER, to the best of my knowledge, | has spring been ushered in with such a tadio fanfare as last week provided. The various groupings of music caught the spirit of the season admirably, especially since, with, I presume, the cooperation of the Weather Office, the weather in Auckland (I cannot ‘answer for the outer darkness) came up to scratch, For me, the most interesting programmes came on Wednesday, Alistair Campbell’s compilation of poems, To Spring, and Bruce Mason’s intimate revue, Rights of Spring. The poems, selected from New Zealand, America and British sources, were linked together with a bland commentary and were, I thought, unusually well read. Rights of Spring didn’t seem to me to be quite as bright as the earlier Mason opus, : nd; the opening song rather went
on, the various interviews sagged, and Duke J. Mangel-Wurzell laboured. But Mr Mason’s skill at mimicry is something to be marvelled at, and the revue had quite as many high spots as any revue I’ve seen. Professor Apfel-Strudel’s poem, with its gobbled refrain, Noddy in love and, above all, a wicked parody of a well-known political figure, made -this unique divertissement one of the choicest flowers to bloom in the spring programmes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 25
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205Nights of Spring New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 25
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