Vocal Chamber Music
ROM that happy time when England ' was a "nest of singing birds," and every educated person was deemed to be capable of reading at sight a part in a new madrigal, we have been having a most interesting series of broadcasts by the Wellington Madrigal ‘Group, under the direction of W. Roy Hill. Madrigal singing may be a lost social art, but this well-balanced group of singers has been showing that it presents some fascinating things for listen-| ers-gems of composition whose inter-. weaving strands make’ up a rich polyphonic texture. The words seem to disappear altogether and we are frequently left with what sounds like chamber music for voices. The texture of this seemed to me on occasion to be rather too uniformly mezzo-forte, which can be my only criticism of a well-produced series, the spoken commentary on which, both in amount and style, might be a
model for: broadcasters.
D.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 11
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156Vocal Chamber Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 11
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