ORGAN AND CHOIR
Sir,-As I have read with keen interest the L.C.M.S. review of Mr. F. K. Tucker's engrossing memoir, dealing with Dr, J. C. Bradshaw’s remarkable career, I would appreciate your courtesy in permitting me to elucidate two matters alluded to by the reviewer and dealt with subsequently by Mr. Tucker, (1) Insofar as Dr. Bradshaw's men’s rehearsals were concerned, I, like Mr. Tucker, do not recollect that the Doctor "ever did so much as to sing one note of music." L.C.M.S., however, quotes an actual incident, relating to No. 3 chorus of the Brahms Requiem, when the revered conductor gave his boys the, required "lead" by singing the bass entry to that most difficult fugue, known to the "grown-ups" as the Barbwire chorus. The words "O Lord, say who may console me," are singularly appropriate in relation to the alleged inattention of the unfortunate lad! Referring to your reviewer’s comments with regard to discarded Victorian composers "well before 1922," I am confident that the Service known as Barnby in E was sung fairly frequently in 1921 (my first year of residence in Christchurch), and would be well within the capabilities of the 1922 relieving organist. After the Doctor’s return from England in 1923 there was "no appearance," T agree that Gadsby’s music was thrown up on the high shelf as far back as the Edwardian Coronation, because it is devoid of "marks." In 1937-38, however, the late Maughan Barnett included Gadsby in C in the Cathedral choirs’ repertoire: thereafter it disappeared again. Nothing by Sir Arthur Sullivan appeared in the choir lists during my sojourn in Pancake City, although I recollect that his organ composition "In Memoriam" was included with other voluntaries in telation to the solemn Anzac Day observances in the early *20s: Reverting to the much maligned Victorians (works of 1860-1900), I would refer students, and others interested, to the ‘Bradshaw Collection" available for perusal in the Canterbury Public Library; whistling » these. old melodies, however, is an
"Offence."
WALTER H.
WARREN
(Timaru),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 5
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336ORGAN AND CHOIR New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 5
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