Recital for Three
"THE other Friday, 2YA broadcast a recital by local artists which should settle the Correspondence Column argument about their desirability-for the three members of the New Zealand Concert Party, Renais Gage, Reymond Windsor and Wilfred Simenauer provided listeners with half-an-hour of exciting musical entertainment. It was in fact difficult to believe that such developed musical artistry was consistent with the youth of the performers. My only criticism was of Miss Gage’s choice of songs. As vehicles for her virtuosity the hackneyed highfalutings of Crupps’s One Song in My Heart and Ronald’s Oh Lovely Night were appreciated, but Miss Gage lacks the emotional maturity to make convincing their passionate expression. Judged solely from the dramatic viewpoint she seemed to me more at home in the pure and airy uplands of I Heard a Blackbird in a Tree. Her bracket of numbers formed a strong contrast to the Bach Fantasia and Fugue which preceded it and the ’cello numbers which followed, and although this effect was probably intentional I feel that the session would have been even more enjoyable had the contrast been less marked.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 401, 28 February 1947, Page 13
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186Recital for Three New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 401, 28 February 1947, Page 13
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