NORTHERN VOICES
"JISTENING to the late Sir | Hugh Roberton introducing | songs by the Glasgow Orpheus Choir over 3YA it was difficult to reconcile the softspoken almost, one might say, sentimental Scot with the man whose ear was so fine and whose discipline so exacting that in particular the mate voices sang as one man, with a consequent clarity of diction seldom met with in massed singing. The combination of sentimentality and rigour may not be as paradoxical as it seems to me, though the production of good art is almost incompatible with the former. But I was reminded of a striking phrase describing a kind of criticism which, whenever it is practised, strips a regional art of its richness. The reviewer spoke of the "cauld blaist" which swept up from Cambridge. In some way like the Scottish poet MacDiarmid, Sir. Hugh +. beneath the random bield O’ clod or stane, Adorns the histie stipble-field, On the interpretive side, no less than the poet on the creative, he has grown up in his native warmth, peacefully and sturdily, uncut by the harsh and unproductive winds from the southwhich, however they may brace in other places, are fatal here.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 10
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196NORTHERN VOICES New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 10
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