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HE performance of Douglas Lilburn’s "Sinfonia for Strings" from 2YA, conducted by the composer, far from temporarily satisfying our need to know more about this New Zealand composer of ours, merely left one with a feeling that the natural development of the composer is outstripping the listening ability of his audience. Not that that is unusual. Genuine creative artists are always a good way ahead of their own times. But here we are (those of us who do not live in Christchurch) hearing something new of Lilburn’s every few months or so, finding that a composer of remarkable powers is growing up very fast among us, and likely to leave us in the dark if we don’t make some attempt to hear more of his music. The six piano preludes mentioned on this page some weeks ago were easy to follow, and delightful to hear. The Sinfonia was still delightful ‘to hear, but those of us who were listening to it for the first
time, and have little expectation of another hearing in the near future, must have felt that to hear it once was only to begin to know what Lilburn is doing with music.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 298, 9 March 1945, Page 8
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198More Please New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 298, 9 March 1945, Page 8
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