"The Holy City"

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 6, 23 August 1929, Page 8

"The Holy City"

H aniilton . Relay N Wednesday evening 1YA will relay a performance of’Gaul’s cantata, "Holy City," from St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Hamilton. The treatment of the subject of this work is almost entirely reflective, the more dramatic parts of the book, from which many of the numbers are taken, for example, "The Vision of St. John," having already. been treated in so masterly a manner by the great German composer, Louis Spohr, in his oratorio, "The Last Judgment." . The first. part of the "Holy City" was Suggested by the passages of Scripture, "Here we have no continuing city," "Thy Kingdom come," and sets forth the desire. -It is followed by other passages expressive of the perfection of the higher life, such as "Bye hath not seen." The second part was suggested by the words, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed’ away," thus realising the desire and promises contained in the first part. With the exception of two hymns and a verse from Milton and three.verses from the Te Deum. the words are entirely scriptural. The conductor and organist will be Mr. 'T. 8S. Webster,, well known to Auckland listeners as a solo organist from 1YA about two years ago,