HARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT.
Sir, —In your excellent criticism on Tuesday last you make use of the remark, “ Had the conductor lost his steadiness in like manner, the basses and tenors and cantatrices would have parted company, and there would have been a Rimutaka disaster.” While agreeing with you that the success or non-success of a concert depends in great measure on the conductor, still, if he is not ably supported by hia pianist, his efforts will bo in vain. Such in my opinion was the case on Saturday night. The very careful and patient way in which the lady pianist went through her task [for task it must.have been) deserves the highest praise. The conductor, soloists, and instrumentalists did their best; the chorus generally did its best ; but had they not been so firmly supported by the accompanist, the elements would have indeed been in an utter state of chaos.—Yours, Tenor. Whenuakura, Sept. 23. [Note. —It is just to the lady who presided so judiciously at the piano to endorse the above remarks. The length of our criticism on Tuesday precluded this and other features of the performance being noticed in detail.—En.]
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Patea Mail, 25 September 1880, Page 3
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