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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 4

In commenting on choral compositions a writer in the London Times says:—One more choral work of the > larger kind must here be mentioned, • because it solves more successfully than i any of the other war works we have > been discussing the problem of setting l poetry for chorus with an orchestral I background. "Three Short Odee," by , Nicholas Gatty (Novello, 2s), takes as , its texte Clough's "Truth is a Golden - Thread" and two passages from Shel- ■ ley, "Unfathomable Sea" and "To » S^er Woes'> (Prometheus Unbound). i The words "Belgium, 1914/' added to • the title of the last, show that here •< too we have a commemoration of past i events. But there is none of the self- . conscious brooding on tragedies which i so readily mars music with a commemo • Tative intention. Mr. Gatty, unlike many of his contemporaries, outs the shape and substance of the poem first. His style is direct and forcible, and his obliviousness to the more seductive effects of modern harmony and his reliance on successions of common chords In bold rhythms are altogether bracing. Commemorative music is too ant to look only backward; this looks forward. During the ringing of a muffled neal; jin Sandbach Church for the oldest j ringer in Cheshire. Mr. Thomas John- ! j son (85). the tenor bell, weighing 18! : cwt., fell with a crash on the oak; . beams. The wheel of another heavy j be.ll was broken. ,