Too Many Encores
T the concert of the Dunedin Royal Male Choir only half of the programme was broadcast, and the inclusion in that half of two vocal soloists and a piano trio, plus various encores, left very little choir work to comment upon. The spirited performances of the well-known "Viking Song" and the Holst arrangement, "Swansea Town," were the best things in the broadcast; the choir lost cohesion in the middle section of Buck’s "Hymn to Music," but the Dunhill arrangement of "Sigh No More," was a neat piece of unaccompanied work; Ashley Aitcheson’s mellow and resonant voice gave to his solo with choir accompaniment an interest which the song itself does not really possess -although,* as may well be imagined, this rendition of "Cottage Wee" was the item the audience particularly liked. It seems a pity that some errangement cannot be made about encores at broadcast concerts. Concert audiences are in the habit (and it is usually no more than a habit) of demanding "just another one" from soloists and choir alike; but as a radio listener, with one ear on the imminent nine o’clock chimes, I can see no valid reason why the printed programme should’ not be adhered to, without additions.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 10
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205Too Many Encores New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 10
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