Modern But Melodic
RMSTRONG GIBBS is a composer not often heard on our radio, or indeed in concert halls in this country, yet he has written some of the most attractive songs in the vocal repertoire. Some of his music is extremely difficult to sing, and many of his songs and ‘part-songs require an accompanist of no mean order. He is a modern but his music, unlike that of many of his contemporaries, is highly melodic and often surprises the listener by its maintenance of a certain elusive atmosphere which stamps the work as the composer’s own. But in his choral piece The Lady of Shalott Armstrong Gibbs did not rise, except occasionally, to the most original heights of his musical expression, and (continued on next page)
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this short cantata winds its peaceful way father like a calm meandering river, without very much in the way of climax. The 4YA Studio Singers, under George Wilkinson, with Jessie Jones as accompanist, gave a most charming and lyrical rendering of the music, and are to be commended on their choice of something just a little different from the usual items given us by choral groups and singers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 11
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198Modern But Melodic New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 11
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