Elementals
H. LAWRENCE once expressed * a desire to reach in his art the non-human in humanity, to get down to those "molecules" where the laugh of a woman rings with the same intrinsic beauty as that possessed by a blade of steel, This is the kind of remark which indicts artists of Taw--rence’s calibre in the eyes of many people, yet having been provoked by its strangeness I now find the thought entirely satisfying. Listening to the Don Cossacks singing the Caucasian Prayer and Dance, and some of the items in the Medley of Russian Folk Songs over 3YC it seemed that here in a different medium was the perfect illustration of what Lawrence meant. Though the names of the. songs suggest humanity the handling is in marked contrast to that of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, where the emotion is, for the most part, immediate, full, rich and beautiful in its humanity. But with the Don Cossacks, partly, I suppose,, because one cannot hear or understand the words, we are released out into the elements of being, the voices vibrate as far beyond our ordinary conflicts as the wind itself or thunder against the sounding board of the sky.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 10
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