GEOGRAPHY AND MUSIC
Sir,-Your inset paragraph on page 30 in The Listener of January 22 has got its geography wrong. Should "England" not read "Great Britain," as this famous Glasgow Orpheus Choir was also famous in its native land Scotland? The NZBS also commits the irritating mistake of the BBC-I heard an announcer relating to the public, among items of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society open air concert on Monday, January 18, that the hymn "Crimond" would be sung. Didn’t she know that this is merely the name of the accompaniment air, but not a hymn, the music being that given to the world-famous 23rd Psalm of the Scottish Psaltery-in fact, so famous a psalm that it has two other equally famous tunes, namely, Brother James’s Air, and Strathcathro. I was present at the Proclamation of Her Majesty at the Mercat Cross beside St. Giles in Edinburgh, and did not hear her proclaimed as "Queen of England," but "Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Dominions beyond the seas." Vide also British coinage!
HELEN
MACKINNON
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 5
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182GEOGRAPHY AND MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 5
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