Easter Carols
A FINE programme for Easter Sunday was a group of Easter Carols, presented by the Studio Singers, directed by George Wilkinson. It would be a pleasant surprise for many listeners to realise that there are other carols than those appropriate to Christmas. There are, of course, dozens of little-known carols; full of grace and charm, expressing every mood. Among such treasuretrove it has always been Mr. Wilkinson’s pleasure to search for new material, and the programme here presented combined the more familiar carols with some lovely unusual choices. A commentary was used for the purpose of giving the programme dramatic continuity, but I thought it too sentimental and meandering to achieve its purpose. Although it was well-spoken, it would have been better omitted in favour of something descriptive of the carols themselves and their musical history. Carols such as these need no "story" to link them, and are capable of making a satisfying musical programme of themselves, without the aid of dramatic "effects."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 11
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165Easter Carols New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 11
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