Radio 3’s Words & Music, on the subject of faith & atheism, was playing in the background on Sunday evening as I was sorting out papers & so not listening closely.
Suddenly the room was filled with Charles Trenet singing “Y’a de la joie”
Pourquoi?
The producer’s note says that it seemed like a provocative response to Wallace Stevens’ “High-toned Old Christian Woman” which preceded it; and provided a suitably “jovial hullabaloo among the spheres.”
And one certain to stop the widow’s wince.
