Can You Catch This Tune?
TUNE lias broken loose among music-lovers in Britain which is “catchy” and yet refuses to be caught. It is tho tune of Maurice Havel’s “Bolero.” which lias just been recorded by Dr. William A Ten gel berg and his Amsterdam 0 roh es tr a. It has already conquered the 'concertroom. The composer gives you every opportunity to “catch” bis tune, for the whole composition consists really of nothing else. Tt is repeated again and again, each tirno with enhanced orchestral coloring. Everybody who hears it, states a London correspondent, declares the tune to bo fascinating, mesmeric, and, above all, catchv. But when the music censes, ask them to whistle it, and unless they possess a photographic musical memory they cannot do so. The catchy tune has already escaped.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 9
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134Can You Catch This Tune? Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 9
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