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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 29, 3 February 1928, Page 2

The instrumental music to be played by the Symions-Ellwood Quartet will be distinctly appropriate. ‘The selections chosen are from the works of Alfred Hill, who has founded some of his most pleasing compositions on Maori folk songs. In the ‘Moderato-Allegro" the first violin enters inimediately with a short, expressive theme which leads up to the Allegro and so on to the second subject, announced by the first violin and violoncello, cantabile. ‘he movement is brought to a close by means of a beautiful ascending passage per violin, answered by the violoncello. ‘Ihe ‘tangi" opens with a fine Maori lament played by the first violin, and viola in éths. Its limited compass of a_ third gives a feeling of monotony which is wonderfully expressive of deen sorrow. At the conclusion of most Maori foll songs there is usually a descending chromatic scale sung glissando. Mr. Till has introduced this ‘‘wail of despair" with fine results at the conclusion of the tangi.