ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
Sir,-I would like someone to explain why we need a National Orchestra composed of groups drawn from our four main centres of population to perform orchestral masterpisces when the Wellington group alone is able to perform adequately such works as Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98, by Brahms, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. The Wellington group has not, to my knowledge, performed Beethoven's Ninth, but this should not be beyond its capabilities. The members of the group may not be eminent as vocalists, but they have voices and _ therefore should be able to manage both the vocal and the instrumental parts. Liszt was not renowned for performances upon the viola, for example, or the clarinet, or the drum; but he read and played at sight a now famous concerto and if Liszt could do this, then the Wellington group, which, numerically at least, is more than equal to a solitary Liszt, should be able to cope with the Ninth.
JOSEPH C.
McEVOY
(Tomahawk).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 33
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167ORCHESTRAL MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 33
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