Concert Coughing
“The season of concert coughing once again appears to be in full swing,” writes an Auckland music critic. “Although this was apparent at the piano recital in the Town Hall recently some of the unhappy effect was lost in the discordant jangling of bass notes emanating from powerfully-struck strings of a piano long past its prime. At this week’s baritone recital, however, the coughers had a fairly free field. Some of Mr Todd Duncan’s most beautiful singing is heard in delicately expressed pianissimo passages, and it was with these, unfortunately, that some of the worst outbursts of the evening synchronised, completely ruining the effect. These ill-timed and inconsiderate interruptions are most annoying to an audience, and, as Mr Duncan afterwards ruefully remarked, they also are very disconcerting for the sing-
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 31, 30 September 1946, Page 3
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132Concert Coughing Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 31, 30 September 1946, Page 3
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