Let Melody be Unconfined
‘THE Philip Neill Memorial prize is given each year for an original composition of outstanding merit, and is open to any past or present student of the University of New Zealand; it carries with it a substantial monetary award, but in addition is a means of enabling New Zealand composers to place their work before the public, a matter for which the donor of the prize is to be thanked, since benefactors of such a calibre are rare. The 1945 award went to Mr. Luscombe of Auckland for his Sonata for Violin and Piano, which was presented from 4YA by Ethel Wallace, violin, and Dr. V. E. Galway, piano. Smoothly and competently managed, this composition reveals an original mind at work; the first subject, especially, was both striking and beautiful. Mr. Lus(continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) combe has a gift for writing fluent and unconfined melodic line, and I look forward with interest to hearing more of his work,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 8
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166Let Melody be Unconfined New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 8
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