Abundance of Choirs
| ANYONE looking at the Auckland programmes for November might come to the conclusion that this city was one of the world’s great centres of song, but it was probably just that several choirs were all having their final outburst at the same time. The late editor of the Musical Times writing last year about music in wartime Britain, remarked on the recently-renewed strength of choral music, "explainable by the fact that choral singing is the least expensive and the most sociable form of collective music-making, and one which yields quick results to the novice." It is probably true also that the humbler tougher structure of choral singing will enable it to survive storms that will mow down orchestras, and that music shows some strange tendencies to flourish in adversity, but the fact remains that great credit is due to those by whose efforts these societies ate kept alive even in New Zealand’s | easier circumstances.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 8
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157Abundance of Choirs New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 8
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