ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC
Sir-With your permission I should like to amplify. Mr. Tucker’s comments (Listener, November 23). The 18th Century anthem alluded to ("I Have Surely Built Thee an House") was sung at the Christchurch Cathedral Dedication Service on November 1, 1881, and at Dedication Anniversary Festivals subsequently. In recent years, however, it has been displaced by a particularly fine, although rather florid, anthem composed by Dr. Bairstow. Of similar interest is the Vaughan Williams Coronation Te Deum, broadcast recently by 3YC. This work was rehearsed by the Christchurch Cathedral Choir in 1938, when the late Maugham Barnett was Choirmaster. It
was his last effort at the organ at a Friday afternoon practice. He died ‘on the following Sunday. It is of interest to recall a BBC Home News item (October 4) that a speaker at a Church Council meeting had criticised modern Cathedral music as tending to be theatrical. I could well imagine that the complainant regrets the abandonment of many compositions of the controversial 1860-1900 period, and possibly is unable to grasp the significance of the Tudor revival.
W. H.
WARREN
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 5
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184ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 5
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