South With Vaughan Williams
ALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS’S seventh symphony Sinfonia Antartica, which he developed from the incidental music he wrote for the film Scott of the Antarctic, will be heard for the first. time in New Zealand on the composer’s 81st birthday, October 12. from ali YC stations. It will be repeated from the» same stations later in the week. The work is in five movements and was written for a large orchestraii includes piano, bells, wind-machine, xvlophonee and (to be omitted "if absolutely necessary’) vibraphone and organ. There is also a soprano soloist and a women’s chorus. The recording New Zealand listeners are to hear was made by the BBC at a performance by the Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli. The soloist is Margaret Ritchie and the chorus is sung by a section of the Croydon Philharmonic Choir. On October 12 all YC stations will also broadcast a talk about Sinfonia Antartica which. was first given in the EBrC Third Programme by _ Scott Goddard, one of Britain’s best-known broadcasters on music. In this Mr. Goddard shows how. the- work was
developed from the music for the film (incidentally it is dedicated to Ernest Irving, the film’s musical director), and he makes a critical analysis of what he describes as "a _ lusty hybrid, not absolutely a symphony, not completely a symphonic poem." The talk is illustrated at the piano by Michael Mullinar. A BBC talk about Vaughan Williams given by Hubert Foss after’ the world premiere of Sinfonia Antartica will be heard from 2YC, 3YC and 4YC on October 12.’ The late Hubert Foss, whose study of the composer was published about three years ago, said in assessing his music: "His ~ musical
language-so much his own-is also the musical language of the English people." And going on to speak of Sinfonia Antartica he said: "At the age of 80 Vaughan Williams has stood up before us as a new composer, offering us something unheard as a target for criticisrn, just like any young man or woman student from the colleges. And his theme is a modern theme-a story of our own time. That is typical of the man." Music by Vaughan Williams, some of which was specially recorded by the NZBS to mark his 80th birthday, will be heard next week also from YZ stations,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 743, 9 October 1953, Page 6
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387South With Vaughan Williams New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 743, 9 October 1953, Page 6
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