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\V ITH two appearances behind it, the NZBS musical. panel game Facing the Music (YAs) seems certain to grow in favour. Naturally enough, so far, the personalities. of the panel have not emerged clearly, As they do, we shall find this programme taking on an individuality all its own. By starting with a demand for each of the panel to complete a melody by humming, whistling or singing, Peter Zwartz, the questionmaster, eases the programme in, As executants the members of the panel are neither as good as the best performers in Number Please nor as bad as the worst. This reassures us of their fallibility. For later there are some splendid bullseye shots at identifying composer and work with electric speed and precision. I like the leisurely pace at which the game is played so that the listener has plenty of time to cock his ear and even the least musically educated has a chance to nod his head at a piece he knows quite well but just cannot place at the moment. If the whole programme is a little muted, this is a fault which will be remedied as the panel warms to its task. At present the ad-libbing is rather tentative but D. W. McKenzie’s "Tin Pan is not my Alley" will do for a start.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1053, 30 October 1959, Page 17
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221Attending Ears New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1053, 30 October 1959, Page 17
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