MALE VOICE CHOIR WORKS FROM 2YA
USICAL forces are combining at 2YA on Tuesday, February 11, to produce two important works for soloists, male choir and orchestra, ie., " Alto Rhapsody " by Brahms, and " The Desert " by David. The combined NBS String and the 2YA Concert Orchestras, together with the Wellington Apollo Singers, will be directed by Andersen Tyrer. The soloists are Molly Atkinson, contralto, and Heddle Nash, tenor, and Professor James Shelley will be the narrator for "The Desert." Brahms was very fond of his "Alto Rhapsody." We are told that he used to sleep with it under his pillow, though that certainly sounds unlike the Brahms we are accustomed to think of. It is a beautiful setting for alto voice, men’s chorus, and orchestra, of a fragment from Goethe’s narrative of a winter journey in the Harz mountains. Five years’ travel in the Orient gave Felicien David a thorough acquaintance with the music of the East, a collection of original Oriental melodies, and powerful impressions that exerted a lasting influence on his imagination. Six years after his return to Paris he succeeded in getting his ode-symphony-"The Desert" -performed at a Conservatoire concert. This work is really a musical record of the noble impressions of his Oriental journey.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 85, 7 February 1941, Page 7
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