Organ and Voice
on the organ of the Wellington Town Hall, with two soprano arias sung by Joan Bryant, posed some very interesting problems in acoustics. Broadcasts of otgan music, it seems, quite often fail to capture the quality of the instrument, I think this is due to the fact that the organist may not realise that he has an ever-present foe in the resonance of the building in which his organ is situated, a building almost invariably large, and usually at the time of the broadcast empty. It thus behoves him to see to the clarity and simplicity of his registration. Mr. Bryant’s handling of this side of the broadcast was good and the result successful. The resonance of the Town Hall was most noticeable also in the broadcast of Joan Bryant's voice. Her singing is always clear and pure; in this instance her voice sounded rounder and fuller than it did in a broadcast she had made earlier in the week; with Alex Lindsay’s delightful violin obbligatos. I doubt, however, if the added resonance was quité true, for it seemed to make the sound rather too booming. The two arias Mrs, Bryant sang were the familiar "With verdure clad," and one from Costa’s Eli, quite worthy to stand alongside the Haydn. Many oratorios now unsung as a whole contain such gems as this, and singers would give more pleasure than they frequently do if they were to become more enterprising in their choice of songs.RECENT recital by Albert :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 522, 24 June 1949, Page 11
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250Organ and Voice New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 522, 24 June 1949, Page 11
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