MUSIC FROM ASHBURTON
Sir,--Growis (mine among them) radio programmes, are all too frequent, so let me make amends by praising when an item delights me. I was twiddling the knob of my radio last week, trying to escape from the uninspired grinding-out of classical music by famous orchestras without an audience, the vulgarity of wise-cracks, and the puerilities of swing, when my hand was stayed by two or three notes of rare beauty. I called my family and friends, and we listened for half an hour to the most beautiful choral singing I have heard for many a day, It was the Ashburton Study Group singing from 3YA, and*I venture the opinion that harmonised singing of their standard has not been heard in New Zealand since the Don Cossack Choir was here. Not only was their performance a triumph artistically, but the quality of tone was delightful, and says a lot for the tact and courage of the selection committee in a smallish place like Ashburton. Listeners who have not made the acquaintance of the Ashburton Study
Group would be well advised to look out for their next appearance on 3YA programmes. They are in for a treat.
W. H.
GRAHAM
(Mangere East).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 490, 12 November 1948, Page 5
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203MUSIC FROM ASHBURTON New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 490, 12 November 1948, Page 5
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