A Musical Jest
(COLUMBIA 9194: "Italian Salad" (Genee) and "In this hour of Softened Splendor."
This is great fun. The Sheffield Choir, whom one would not suspect of such levity, sings with great gusto this jolly joke of Genee's. The composer burlesques a grand opera finale, substituting for the "book", a hotch--potch of musical terms such as "Piano, rallentando," etc., pronouncing each m the style it suggests.
The result is most diverting and so well done that one almost mistakes it for the real thing; for which the high quality of the singing is to be thanked. Not a bad way, either, of learning the meaning of some of these musical expressions!
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NZ Truth, Issue 1145, 10 November 1927, Page 2
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112A Musical Jest NZ Truth, Issue 1145, 10 November 1927, Page 2
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