"Dirge for Fiddle"
T wasn’t possible to gather from the printed programmes just exactly what the Cecilia Choir was singing from 4YA. Someone made a jigsaw puzzle of the items and didn’t haye time to fit them together again-a couple of items got lost altogether, and several appeared twice. The most puzzling piece of the lot was labelled "Dirge for Fiddle," and I confess I wondered just what was going to eventuate, since this strange
title was given to a part-song by Vaughan-Williams. It proved to be Shakespeare’s "Fidele," that lovely lyric beginning "Fear no more the heat o’ the sun." These lines, if engraved on a tombstone, must surely reconcile the occupant to his quietude, always supposing he were sufficiently four-dimensional to be able to read his own epitaph. The Cecilia Choir, a small but carefully balanced group of women’s voices, provided a programme of interesting part-songs, not the least beautiful of them being "They crucified my Lord;" which though one of the least-heard is surely one of the most inspired of the Negro spirituals,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 311, 8 June 1945, Page 8
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176"Dirge for Fiddle" New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 311, 8 June 1945, Page 8
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