"A Delightsome Land"
[Tt is hard to imagine a more modest or reticent composer than Wellington’s Stanley Oliver. He is, for example, disarmingly frank in saying that his composing activities are only indulged in "every summer holiday when I write a piece or two for fun." But his work for chorus and orchestra, "A Delightsome
Land," was of sufficient excellence to warrant its publication by a big London music firm. It will be heard for the first time during the Wellington Centennial Music Festival — on the evening programme for this Saturday, June 22. The work, which was written and published in 1938, with the dedication: "Dedicated to the Royal Wellington Choral Union on the eve of the one hundredth tirthday of that ‘ delightsome land,’ New Zealand," is a most fitting one for the Centennial programmes. The words are compiled from the Bible, and the work ends with the phrase from Malachi, "And all nations shall call ye blessed, for ye shall be a delightsome land." There are moments of triumph for the chorus, but the middle section is soft and restrained, taking as its theme the admonition of the Scriptures to peaceful living. — The work is scored for chorus and small orchestra-that is, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, two trumpets, trombones, timpani, organ, piano, and strings.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 52, 21 June 1940, Page 20
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