Arthur Messham's adjudication"

Llandudno Music Festival

July 1951

see 43.43 for certificate

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Llandudno Musical Festival

1951

(Affiliated to the British Fed. Musical Festivals)

COMPETITOR: Arthur Messham

CLASS NO: 4

ENTRY: 6

TEST PIECES: On the wings of song

Ave Maria

Marks: 80

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167

A better pace - a pity you could not get off to the first ? - and there were impurities in intonation. It was over-? - and yet it held something of the impassioned quality I was looking for. Here was the in 3 I hoped for - a certain musicality here.

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An experience ? ? - altho those exaggerations are disturbing. Your case was perhaps of better ? . As it was there was no little compulsion and eloquence in your performance. Sharp on final E.

(Adjudicator's signature indecipherable)

Author: Adjudicator

Arthur Messham's adjudication"

Llandudno Music Festival

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