MUSICAL CRITICISM.
I have some fault to find with the criticism in an evening paper, not as a whole, but some parts of it. The parts I mean are palpably spiteful towards one or two singers who assisted at the entertainment on Wednesday. The contrast is shown by saying that some singers (who did not escape being jeered at) “ sang very nicely,” whereas others who did at least sing in tune (though not in so good a voice as usual) were “ flat enough to be discordant,” &c. If any judgment had to be passed on the singing, it should have been intelligent judgment, and not one showing ignorance of the rudiments of music—even of clarionette music. We do expect at least ordinary intelligence in public criticisms. First Violin.
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Patea Mail, 25 August 1882, Page 3
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