Thanksgiving for Victory
AUGHAN WILLIAMS’S _ choral "Thanksgiving for Victory" came from 3YA this week. Perhaps the most immediately outstanding were the spoken passages, chiefly from Isaiah. We were’ not told who the speaker was, but he gave one of the best performances of its kind I remember; avoiding the vices of both pulpit and stage, he achieved a kind of impersonal grandeur. "To proclaim liberty to the, captives and the opening of prison to them that are bound. .. ." The only point I should question is "they shall repair the waste cities, the desolation of many generations." Most of the cities were desolated by the present generation, and our chief preoccupation is to avoid desolating all that remain. But the composition as a whole was a good and faithful rendering of the victory mood of the last year. One remembered the American in the broadcast from the U.S.S. Missouri two months ago and his voice as.he said: "Perhaps this is. the last surrender." The balance between jubilation and awareness of responsibility was superbly struck.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 333, 9 November 1945, Page 8
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173Thanksgiving for Victory New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 333, 9 November 1945, Page 8
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