Merry Madrigals
T is not often that we have the privilege of hearing madrigals sung on the radio, and it, was exciting to find two local choirs tackling them, round about the same time. The Christchurch Liederkranzchen, conducted by Alfred Worsley, included .in its programme Dowland’s lovely air "Come Again, Sweet Love," and Morley’s jolly "What Saith My Dainty Darling"; these were also sung by the Cecilia Choir, Dunedin, conducted by Meda Paine, but I thought the choice of the remaining items in the bracket was better in the case of the Dunedin choir,"who gave us also Bennet’s racy "All Creatures Now Are Merry-Minded," and that most princely of madrigals (my favourite) Gibbons’ "The Silver Swan." According to musical historians, there was a golden age of music when common folk such as you and I, reader, would get out the madrigal books of an evening and indulge in part-singing for pleasure, just as moderns indulge in bridge. Those days, alas, are past. Few of us nowadays can carry a tune, let alone read an inner part at sight. We leave our madrigal‘singing to be done for us by trained choirs, and it is lucky for us that we have choirs willing and able to prepare such rare and welcome programmes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 10
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210Merry Madrigals New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 10
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