LAWN TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1935, Page 20

LAWN TENNIS

(Special to the "Eveniw Post.")

NELSON, December 2,

In the annual tennis match played between Nelson and Motueka Nelson won by 35 sets (232 games) to 5 sets (111 games). A number of the visiting players were not used to grass courts.

an outburst of the soul. He regarded life as a tragedy made livable by those rare moments of supreme happiness which come and go, never more to return. At the thought of the "never-more" ■ music would well up within him, and a few words: —

"But my mate no more, no more with me. .• . . We two together, no

more, no more"-

a few words svch as these, and often very undistinguished words, would draw from him music of such intense feeling as to be almost unbearable.

In "Sea-drift," in "Songs of Sunset," "The Village Romeo and Juliet," "Cynara." "Songs of Farewell" —it is always the same—that same longing for the perpetuation of impossible bliss. It mattered not whether it was an opera, a song, an orchestral,or a choral work; it was'always that same longing that was uppermost in him. inspiring his finest conceptions.

Was it a coincidence that Delius's most cherished possession was Gauguin's "Never More." which he bought direct from the painter? Delius was only interested in the story of Koanga and Palmyra in so far as the "never-more" was concerned; hence the complete lack of dramatic action, the absurd situations, and the tameness of his musical characterisations.

A detail or two about the incorporation of music of earlier date may interest the composer's admirers. The dance music in the second act was borrowed from an orchestral suite called "Florida." written in 1889. The original orchestration he retained throughout, and he added voice parts for Palmyra and the chorus to suit the jolly situation. The short prelude to Act 111 Delius borrowed from his discarded opera, "The Magic Fountain."