POOR MUSICAL TASTE
THE ENGLISH PROVINCES. DAME 'MELBA'S REGRETS. LONDON, Jan. 11. Dame Nellie Melba, who Is about to retire from public singing, says that she Intends to live In Paris and “have a jolly good time." She juaerto that musical taste in the English provinces has not devel oped In the last 40 years. “They won’t learn anything new,” she says, "and cannot get away from Tosti’s ‘Good bye,’ Landon Ronald’s ‘Down in the Forest,’ and the awful ‘Jewel Song’ from ‘Faust’ It Is sad.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3249, 20 January 1926, Page 7
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