BRITTEN'S MUSIC
Sir,-I listened in to the first New Zealand Concert of the Boyd Neel Orchestra. How fortunate we are to have music of this quality brought to our doors! The lovely, bird-like tone of the two first numbers was a fitting prelude to the terrific music of Benjamin Britten. Surely all of modern life is in that
music-the grinding gears, the screeching brakes, the jigging amuséments, the thunder .of bulldozers, the awful weight of material knowledge-and, above it all, the voice of the spirit giving its eternal Cry. I do not know what will be the response of those who are, in the musical sense, educated. I have not yet read or heard any opinion of an expert, but many untutored listenérs like myself must have felt, I think, as I did, that Britten’s music, as interpreted by the Boyd Neel Orchestra, was a_ release of something in themselves which calls for expression in this terrifying yet, in some strange sense, beautiful age in
which we live.
MARY
LOVEL
(Hamilton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 422, 25 July 1947, Page 5
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171BRITTEN'S MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 422, 25 July 1947, Page 5
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