A SEA SYMPHONY.
The llrst concert of the 1020 season of the Royal Wellington Choral Union will take place at the Town llall on Saturday evening noxt p"i .TVi"? °f whlch wIU °>"m ilt «»° Bristol at. 9 to-morrow morning. The music is by Vaughan Williams, and tho words by Walt Whitman. A Sea Symphony Is written for soprano and baritono soloist witii chorus and orchestra. In four movements. Vnughan Williams iias written in tho modern idiom and has shown what is for a choral work a slightly unusual form. The work is as he has entitled it a symphony in tho piiro seusu of tho word. The viocc purts, both of chorus and soloists, are woven in with those of the orchestral instruments to form yet another lure of colour and timbre on the whole, and tho words emerge and are lost and emerge again in triumphant unison as a key to tho Intricate music. VaUKlun Williams has not hamperod himself with the words, but he has used them on the Intervening voice parts merely as a vehicle for thought for tho singers and lotting them come forward with true emphasis for tho expression of great emotional poetic, or pictorial ideas. Mr. John Bishop, tho musical director, will have associated with him ns soloists, Mrs. Amy Woodward, soprano, and Mr. William Watters, baritone. The final rehearsal will take place at tho Town Hall on Friday at 7.30.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 2, 2 July 1929, Page 5
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237A SEA SYMPHONY. Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 2, 2 July 1929, Page 5
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