Lyric Choir
WAS pleased to see in the programmes a studio recital from 4YA by the Lyric Choir, conducted by John T. Leech, and to find that the items selected were many of those performed a couple of weeks ago at the choir’s 26th Anniversary Concert. The concert itself was an innovation, as several of the items in it were arranged for ballet and danced by the Lily Stevens Dance Group, but a broadcast of the actual concert, owing to the placing of choir, piano, and dancers, would not have been a success. On the radio, as on the concert ‘platform, I thought the Beethoven and Mozart the most impressive; and the Elgar part-song for women’s voices, "The Snow," was delightfully sung (at the concert it may have been regarded by a majority of the audience merely as background for the ballet). Why was it, though, that a new and interesting group of choir and solo works were omitted
from the broadcast, the group from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess? I hope these are being kept in reserve by the choir, for radio performance at a later date.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 11
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187Lyric Choir New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 11
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