Maoris Chanting
HAVE heard sessions of Song and Story of the Maori*which seemed to be undertaken in a spirit df sober cultural duty, and to be almost as unblemished by joie de vivre.as the News in Maori. However; last Friday’s session (excerpts from a concert given’ by the Maori Club of the Wellington Teachers’ Training College) seemed to have much more of an eye to the export market. The programme was presented with finish and enthusiasm. Most of the items were entirely unknown to me; in the case of the familiar "Veni, Veni," I was delighted at the power of Maori words and harmonies to give back to the song some of its original bloom. But it was the chants particularly which brought home to listeners the fact that Maori is an exotic culture rather than a handy mine of local colour.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 10
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142Maoris Chanting New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 10
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