GOOD SINGING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23897, 26 August 1939, Page 10

GOOD SINGING

JUDGE’S PARTING ADVICE WORK AT COMPETITIONS “As a whole the high standard of the vocal classes as classes had been well maintained,” said Mr C. H. Adolph Mann, of the Trinity College of Music, \ London, who has been the vocal adjudicator at the Dunedin Competitions Society’s festival, “ and I would now like to see the standard of craftsmanship on the part of the competitors brought up to the same high standard. That is my message to the vocalists for the next twelve months.” The music selected for the classes had been admirable from every point he said, it then became the duty of the entrants to rise to the occasion, “Tell them that vibrato is quite out of fashion." said Mr Mann when asked

of view and did credit to the committee responsible. It was doing its part to maintain the reputation which the society had built up in the past and, for some general criticisms of the performances. “ There has been too many wobbly voices and too much spurious emotion. Be natural and take care not to be affected. In some cases affectation has been adopted for the sake of variety where none was needed.” The successful competitors had succeeded admirably in getting right into the spirit of the music although frequently it was" difficult music that they were called on to execute. The support given to the choral section had being very pleased as it was another indication that choral music was enjoying a revival in popular taste. If vou are responsible for initiating any advertising campaign bear in mind the public tendency toward? sober thinking shown by the steadily growing circulation of the Otago DalU Times. Utilise the Classified Columns for auiok and economical results