Original Compositions
OST music-lovers would be interested in the 4YA broadcast of the two compositions for two pianos which shared the 1948°Philip Neill Prize. The winners this year were Donald Byars and John Ritchie, and their works were performed by Professors V. E. Galway and Vernon Griffiths. It was inevitable, when the works wére played following each other on the same programme, that comparisons would be made by the listeners; but it was plain why the judges had decided to share the prize, for in musical ability the two works displayed were of equal merit. These efforts suggest that the science of composition is well taught and well gapprehended in our universities; but there is more than the study of the technique of composition in the making of & composer. ™! one thing which cannot be taught is t production of the raw material of the composer’s art, his ideas, themes, inspirations. Here I thought the second composition scored. Donald Byars’s Variations were on a borrowed theme; but the delightful and breezy theme of John Ritchie’s Passacaglia was evidently the composer’s own, and. lent itself toa really sparkling fugal treatment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 11
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188Original Compositions New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 11
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