Ecclesiastical Music
THE Dunedin Lyric Choir’s concert of Ecclesiastical Music has become an established function, and the latest 4YA broadcast ‘of such concerts was interesting and varied. "Ecclesiastical" is a word with somewhat stiff-sounding connotations, reminding one rather of dusty
hassocks and long Sunday mornings punctuated with those four-square dirges known as congregational hymns, rather than the inspired religious music of the great masters. I imagine it has been used te describe these concerts merely for lack of a better, more pliable adjective, nor can I suggest a better alterna-
tive. Actually, the programme contained items from the oratorio, cantata, mass, and general worship, and J. .T. Leech, the conductor, even went so far as to allow the shade of Asgard momentarily to overshadow the stained-glass, when the Choir resoundingly presented "The Challenge of "Thor" from Elgar’s King Olaf. When last I wrote of these concerts, I mentioned that I should have liked some Palestrina and Bach. Well, they were both represented in this concert, but I have not heard either yet, since they both came in the second half of the concert, and the broadcast stopped at nine o’clock, Perhaps Palestrina’s "Like as the Hart Desireth" for the benefit of radio listeners may figure in some later broadcast by this choir?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 10
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212Ecclesiastical Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 10
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