https://middle-c.org/2017/07/rich-and-diverting-recital-of-songs-by-takiri-vocal-quartet-and-piano-at-waikanae/ Classical Music Reviews, Wellington, New Zealand Thu, 03 Aug 2017 05:11:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://middle-c.org/2017/07/rich-and-diverting-recital-of-songs-by-takiri-vocal-quartet-and-piano-at-waikanae/comment-page-1/#comment-694176 Thu, 03 Aug 2017 05:11:20 +0000 https://middle-c.org/?p=12704#comment-694176 a lovely review of the concert, Kirsty.Congratulations.

]]> https://middle-c.org/2017/07/rich-and-diverting-recital-of-songs-by-takiri-vocal-quartet-and-piano-at-waikanae/comment-page-1/#comment-694165 Sun, 16 Jul 2017 03:52:55 +0000 https://middle-c.org/?p=12704#comment-694165 Re “one Arthur Somervell”. There are entries for Somerville in both the Oxford Companion to Music (10th edn) and the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music (4th edn). He is also mentioned in a biography published last year of the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, who was his granddaughter. The author, Artemis Cooper, writes (on p. 3): “He might have risen further as a composer had he not been such a champion of musical education. He pioneered the establishment of music as a recognized subject in schools, and developed the system of grades in musical proficiency that is still in use today.”

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