WOBBLING SINGERS
Sir,-In your issue of May 21 your correspondent F. K. Tucker writes of Isobel Baillie’s freedom from "the eternal wobble" indulged in by so many singers. Does this refer to the species of suppressed ‘hiccups so frequently heard, particularly in church (e.g., "The Lo’hords myhy she-epherd, I'll ‘no-hot wa-hant") apparently with the object of imparting additional fervour? If so, can nothing be done about it? Why is it allowed in "quires and places where they sing?" Can the answer be that it is as much as any choirmaster’s life is worth to allude to the subject? ’ I should like to endorse the writer’s reference to Santley. He was an old man when I first heard him, but his singing never failed to arouse enthusiasm,
INQUIRER
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 470, 25 June 1948, Page 5
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128WOBBLING SINGERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 470, 25 June 1948, Page 5
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