A Choral Tribute to London
CONCERT rich in music seldom performed here will be contributed to the Auckland Music; Festival at 8.0 p.m..on Tuesday, June 12, by the Dorian Singers, conducted by Harry Luscombe and with an orchestra led’ by Vincent Aspey. It will be broadcast from 1LYC. The choir will give Auckland’s first complete performance with orchestral accompaniment of Sir Hubert Parry's Ode on the Nativity, and of In Honour of the City, a fantasia by Sir George Dyson. In both cases the words are by the Fifteenth Century Scottish poet William Dunbar. This ode, says Mr. Luscombe, has all the characteristics of ‘the composer’s styleclimax piled upon climax and a sublime grandeur which is thrilling for both performer and listener. The soloist will be Sybil Phillipps (soprano), "London, the Flower of Cities All," is the subject of the fantasia. It was chosen, Mr. Luscombe told The Listener, as an appropriate musical tribute to Britain in her festival year. Sir George
Dyson is now Director of the Royal College of Music, London, and this work was first performed in 1928. Another modern work will be performed in New Zealand for the first time, so far as is known, when the choir sings a suite of three traditional old English songs set to the music of F. W. Wadely. Slighter in character than the two major. works they are nevertheless effectively and very beautifully written. Other items by the choir will include part songs by Sir Charles Stanford, Ernest Moeran and the contemporary ‘English composer Gordon Jacob. Their opening item will be Alleluia, by Randall Thompson, who is an influential force in present-day American music. This composition is a skilful study in gradations and provides excellent opportunities for a demonstration of expressive choral singing. Pas As associate artist on the same programme Barbara Holm, a talented young Wellington pianist, will. make her first public appearance in Auckland, where
she is now undertaking . post-graduate study. She will present works by Bach, Beethoven, Rowley, Granados and Dohnanyi.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 9
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335A Choral Tribute to London New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 9
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