Messiah
ESSIAH is still the year’s greatest vocal debauch. Handel’s sense of the dramatic and his box-office judgment might well be the envy and perhaps even the pattern for de Mille, Cochran and the rest of the entertainers in the grand manner. Sometimes I think both chorus and audience must be living on memories, "the hidden mocking spirit in things,’ for so often both accept a far lower standard of performance than they would in less familiar works. The Auckland Choral Society’s Messiah this year, broadcast from 1YA, produced some colourless chorus singing, some indifferent orchestral accompaniment . (there seemed to be as many different tunings as players) and some good if uneven solo work, Mary Negus (soprano) and Ramon Opie (tenor) showed promise of better things to come; Mary Pratt (contralto) sang with assurance and understanding; Ken Macauley (bari-
tone) has an appropriate robustness in his voice but he might well remember Professor F. Sinclaire’s: "Handel begins with the lungs, but by no means ends there."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 339, 21 December 1945, Page 9
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166Messiah New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 339, 21 December 1945, Page 9
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