Bouquet for the Orchestra
PERHAPS the National Orchestra, especially under James Robertson, has so slowly grown into the consciousness of the regular musical listener that we have come to take it for granted. Do we always, I wonder, realise just how good it is nowadays-equal, I dare assert, to most orchestras of its size in the Commonwealth? Do we recognise what gaps there would be if we could not hear the many concerts, the studio recitals and the sustainment given to opera and oratorio? Listening the other night to a Christchurch concert, with Spivakovsky playing Liszt with the Orchestra, and the Orchestra alone in Delius, Rossini and Strauss, and enjoying every minute, I felt moved, as one sometimes is obscurely, to a burst of affection for the Orchestra and all its works. A banal thought, perhaps, and banally expressed. But these things co often go by default. The concert-hall atmosphere, the shuffling and scuffling, the dim cough, the announcer’s comments, the engaging explanations of the conductor-these give the Orchestra’s concerts a tangibility and a personality, which it is possible to feel genuinely
attached to.
J. C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 8
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187Bouquet for the Orchestra New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 8
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