N.Z. Church Music
\V HY is it that, when New Zealand | composers are discussed, we rarely | hear mentioned the several admirable | composers of Church music this country | possesses? Is it that, perhaps, the works | are heard by too limited a range of | people-or that some prejudice exists against accepting music so wedded to a special purpose as music pure and simple? (Poor old Bach!) Whatever the | reason, the NZBS is performing a worthy | service with the recorded series of | Ckurch Music by New Zealand Composers now running from 1YC. The! works are performed splendidly by the Christchurch Cathedral Choir, with all the austere beauty of men’s and boys’ voices. Last week we heard compositions by Dr. Vernon Griffiths, Professor of Music at Centerbury University College, who must be one of the most prolific of our composers. This was a moving session of devotional music in the truest sense of the term, in which the, Magnificat, the Gloria and the Super Omnia Ligna Cedrorum stood out for me. Here, I felt, was not a little of that "serenity ‘and luminous spirituality" which Dr. Richard Terry finds in Byrd’s music, It : (continued om next page) ; : ; : i |
RADIO REVIEW
W@s a pity that the recording was here and there unsatisfactory, suggesting acoustical trouble with that least tractable of radio instruments-the church
organ.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 25
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221N.Z. Church Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 25
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