"The Norman Baron"
4YA to Broadéast Cantata T Dunedin on Monday, September 2, The Majors will present Anderton’s fine cantata, "The Norman Baron." . \This poem by Longfellow, which is the subject of the descriptive cantata, has been set to musie by Orsmond Anderton, sometimes incarrectly referred to as Anderson. The theme of the cantata is the life of a Norman baron on his. feudal estate, the music during the opening portion of the composition being descriptive of the lordly rule of a tyrant. The closing portion of the music is soft and melodious in character, typical of the baron’s repentance on his deathbed for his acts of tyranny, and the closing stanzas typify the pardon which the baron grants his slaves.
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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 7, 30 August 1929, Page 7
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121"The Norman Baron" Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 7, 30 August 1929, Page 7
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