"Winter Journey"
HE series of song-cycles from 2YA ended with Schubert’s "Winter Journey," a set of 24 songs, described recently by the music critic of a daily paper as "rather doleful in character." They were sung in two broadcasts by Ken Macaulay, and very well sung indeed. The first song, "Goodnight," with its relentless marching tread, was a fine opening. And had the microphone not failed we might have heard the last song, "The Hurdy Gurdy Man," sung with profound feeling, and tremendously pathetic effect, as Mr. Macaulay has recently sung it, away from the microphone. In between, Mr. Macaulay found out the magic of those several songs which stand eut on their own, and are for that reason so tempting to sing apart from the cycle. (One could call them ‘the ones that have major-key episodes of brightness and hopefulness within a ‘melancholy minor-key context.) And he showed us the difference between mockmoaning and true grief, in those others, the ones that are "rather doleful in character." :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 8
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168"Winter Journey" New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 8
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