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Two Contrasting Moods
The railway station - April in the hills


Jun. 27, 1969 The Toronto Daily Star by William Littler

A rich lode of vocal music

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THE FESTIVAL SINGERS opened with the premiere of Contrasting Moods, which they commissioned under a Centennial grant, from Oskar Morawetz. Morawetz has a good old-fashioned respect for words and the importance of hearing them. His setting of two Archibald Lampman poems (The Railway Station and April in the Hills) is true to both the word imagery and the lyrical flow of the verses.

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