CHORAL SOCIETY
During the Renaissance there was one art that became emancipated from its dependence on the drama and the dance, for winch its existence depended. The Reformation had created new de sires in the poets, and the plastic arts and music began to assert their, own, and to-day wo enjoy the results of its emancipation in that we can choose from the repertoires of the great masters works that are dissociated from the dance and the drama. It is well that we have in our midst-societies who are able to bring before the public such creations of art. The Dunedin Choral Society will render the oratorio 1 St. Paul,! by Mendelssohn.—which portrays the incidents, in the life of Paul, the world’s great missioner with melodist harmonies and with that intense dynamij/force that made Mendelssohn great —to-morrow evening in His Majesty’s Theatre,, . *
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Evening Star, Issue 19559, 18 May 1927, Page 3
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142CHORAL SOCIETY Evening Star, Issue 19559, 18 May 1927, Page 3
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