Gregory's Legacy
REMEMBER someone saying to me once, "You have to be a very good musician to appreciate the musical beauty of Gregorian chant." Over the years I have heard enough Gregorian to recognise its liturgical fitness. But I had never realised its subtlety, its variety and its colour until I heard the illustrated talks on the chant which Joseph Papesch has been giving from 1YC. Mr. Papesch, who has studied Gregorian at
the fountain-head, gave an exposition so lucid, so penetrating and so enthusiastic as to open, I am sure, the ears of many listeners to the richness and purity of a form which a 19th century writer described as "that dull Popish drone." What made the talks more remarkable is that the speaker is blind. Yet his easy assured delivery and absence of fumbling for words could serve as @ model for many radio speakers who have the benefit of scripts. The illustrations, sung con amore by the students of the Greenmeadows Marist Seminary, were superb, It is something worth reflecting on that in this tiny land, dominated, we are told, by crass materialism, one of the most ancient forms of devotional music is cultivated with love, and plays its part in the worship of a high proportion of church-going New Zealanders.
J.C.
R.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19560720.2.34.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 16
Word count
Tapeke kupu
215Gregory's Legacy New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 16
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in