O Clap Not Your Hands
‘THE Leech Choir has inaugurated a new type of concert, providing a time and place for the performance of music which may seem scarcely at home on the concert platform. The first hour of the Choir’s recital of ecclesiastical music was broadcast by 4YA; the performance was in Knox Church: Whether owing to the nature of the programme or the influence of their surroundings, the audience forbore to clap; this lack of applause sounded eerie over the radio and also impressive. Ordinarily the radio listener knows that studio performers are singing to a microphone; he himself is merely a part of a widely-dispersed audience, and no amount of applause on his part will be heard by the singers; but when the listener knows that the singers have before them a large and unseen audience which makes its presence felt by its very silence, there is generated a current of feeling very suitable for the reception of such music as was presented here. The only disappointment I felt was in the complete absence
*-at any rate during the broadcast part of the programme-of any works by two composers of the sublimest church music, Palestrina and Bach.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 317, 20 July 1945, Page 16
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200O Clap Not Your Hands New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 317, 20 July 1945, Page 16
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