CRITICISM ON MATARAWA CONCERT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 946, 10 November 1868, Page 2

CRITICISM ON MATARAWA CONCERT.

TO THE EDITOR OE THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE. Sir, —It is a most unpleasant thing to have to contradict any one, but as your critic of the Matarawa Concert (who is clearly an incompetent person, notwithstanding his assumption of superior knowledge and discernment) has made a slight mistake, which being in my power to correct, I consider it my duty to do so. I refer to that part of the critique where he sajs that in the duet, “ Could a man be secure,” the bass came to grief, but the tenor pulled it through. Now this, with those who, like the critic, are unfamiliar with the piece, might appear to have been the case, but the real truth is as follows : all the parts excepting the last are or ought to be repeated. The first part had been sung and repeated, and the second sung, when the tenor, who ought to have led off the repeat (the bass resting), instead of doing so, commenced the third part. This is why in the language of the learned critic he had to pull it through, and this it was that caused that confusion in the bass inevitable under the circumstance, which he (the critic) is pleased to denominate coming to grief. I am, &c., Too Sharp.