WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.
The box plan for the Westminster Glee Singers' season, which commences at the Town Hall on Saturday night, is rapidly filling at The Bristol. A boy's voice, when properly trained, has a sweetness and a. freshness all its own, with an almost ethereal appeal, and it is quite devoid of those tempestuous outbursts of passion and so-called temperament which some of the more mature singers sometimes indulge in. British solo and choral work aims at purity of voice, unimpeachable technique, and a variegated style of expression at all times fitting to the mood or emotion of the words, which, being in English, are readily understood. Boys' voices, in all their entrancing beauty, can only be found in Great Britain, because the system of training which exists there has been carried op for centuries, and is the direct product of the wonderful Cathedral services. Likewise from the same reason is it that the finest adult singers in the world emanate from the Old Country. A great feature of Mr. Branscombe's Westminster Glee Singers is that the whole of their nnisjc is performed from memory instead of relying on the printed copy, and naturally there must be an advantage in this, for listeners may thus understand what the son^s are all about. "
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 9, 11 January 1923, Page 5
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