"The Maid of the Mill"
HE third of 2YA’s song cycles was '" Schubert’s "The Maid of the Mill" sung in two instalments by Joan Bryant, with Elsie Betts-Vincent at the piano. [It was, of course, a pleasure to hear the whole cycle; too often are we put off by having odd songs taken out and sung in "brackets" as if they existed independently. But I did not find Mrs. Bryant entirely suited to the matter in hand. "The Maid of the Mill" wants no demure prettiness added to her present charms. The ingratiating winsomeness of Mrs. Bryant’s voice is ideal perhaps for "Still the Lark Finds Repose" and songs of that character, but Durbinesque scoops are unnecessary to the interpretation of Schubert. They were fatal of course in the last song, which opens with the first six notes of "Nellie Bly," for this needs to be disguised rather than emphasised.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 11
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150"The Maid of the Mill" New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 11
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