VICTORIA AND TADMOR
Sir-This concerns two (repeated) errors in spelling in various issues of the Listener. (1) The name of a 16th Century composer, Vittoria, whose delightful music is on the air this (Saturday) evening. In a number of issues of your journal the name is spelt erroneously "Victoria," and the announcer, unfortunately, has just repeated the error. (2) This relates to that interesting talk a few weeks ago dealing with the Tadmor Valley, when the Listener published the name "Tadmore Valley" incorrectly, from time to time. My, activities in Nelson (1919-1921) frequently concerned the Tadmor Valley farmers, and contiguous areas of Matariki, Sherry
River and Korere, where there were a number of returned servicemen. On page 667 of the New Zealand Guide, Mr. E. S. Dollimore, F.R.G.S., states that the name is derived from the _ Bibical Tadmor, built by Solomon "in the wilderness," in allusion to the isolation of the settlement in its beginnings. As the talk indicated, the district is a place of smell farmers: now with the memory of a closed railway which has served their transport needs since 1910.
W. H.
WARREN
(Timaru).
(We bow to Tadmor, but not to Vittoria. The Concise Oxford Dictio of Music uses Victoria (he was born at Avila, Old Castile), and explains that the "common Italianisation of-his name (Vittoria) comes from his spending in Rome about 30 years of the earlier part of his life."-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 913, 8 February 1957, Page 5
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235VICTORIA AND TADMOR New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 913, 8 February 1957, Page 5
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