A Number of Things
A Number of Things
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There is really no reason in the world why this should be so. There is indeed no reason why the possibilities of the craft should so far outrun its performances. And so one is tempted to applaud the suggestion that some specific mode of training might be advan tageously introduced. ' The School for Waits, ' or 'The Waits Academy, ' or (less pleasingly) * The Guild of Midnight Carollers ' some such body, far less essentially inapposite than Mr. Freer's Academy for Actors, might accomplish a deal... of really admirable work. For one thing, it might serve to create a modern school of carol- writers, a thing greatly to be desired and practi cally non-existent. For anotheritwould certain ly reintroduce to the light of day (or to the dark night) the numberless entirely beautiful old Songs of Nowell, which now merely lie, in a dull insensate sort of way, on a few ' unturned ' pages in the anonymous section of our antho logies. And in those two ways alone the move- 164 A WORD FOR THE WAITS ment would destroy the chiefest blemish of the Deplorably r, limited and hackneyed The blemish, of course, is the deplorably limited and hackneyed nature of its repertoire a blemish which is far from being softened by the fact that certain of the most popular pieces in that repertoire are largely made up of in genious repetitions.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There is really no reason in the world why this should be so. There is indeed no reason why the possibilities of the craft should so far outrun its performances. And so one is tempted to applaud the suggestion that some specific mode of training might be advan tageously introduced. ' The School for Waits, ' or 'The Waits Academy, ' or (less pleasingly) * The Guild of Midnight Carollers ' some such body, far less essentially inapposite than Mr. Freer's Academy for Actors, might accomplish a deal... of really admirable work. For one thing, it might serve to create a modern school of carol- writers, a thing greatly to be desired and practi cally non-existent. For anotheritwould certain ly reintroduce to the light of day (or to the dark night) the numberless entirely beautiful old Songs of Nowell, which now merely lie, in a dull insensate sort of way, on a few ' unturned ' pages in the anonymous section of our antho logies. And in those two ways alone the move- 164 A WORD FOR THE WAITS ment would destroy the chiefest blemish of the Deplorably r, limited and hackneyed The blemish, of course, is the deplorably limited and hackneyed nature of its repertoire a blemish which is far from being softened by the fact that certain of the most popular pieces in that repertoire are largely made up of in genious repetitions.
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