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Performing Instrumental Music Vocally "Song of Survival" is a film about the power of music that speaks to "Song of Survival": Performing the essence of the choral profession. In a World War II prison camp, Instrumental Music Vocally women sang the orchestral and piano masterpieces of great com­ by Patricia F. Hennings posers-Beethoven, Chopin, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy. Their music became a symbol of freedom and a tool for survival dur­ ing a brutal three and a half years of possessed their voices. Norah and "Country Gardens" were sen­ captivity. Written down entirely Chambers, a graduate of the Royal timental pieces of the period that from memory and arranged for four­ Academy of Music in London and an undoubtedly reminded the British part women's voices, this perfor­ experienced choral conductor, had captives of their homeland. mance phenomenon was the crea, an intriguing idea - that women Camp survivors have told that tion of two women captives, could sing the masterpieces of during rehearsals, Margaret Margaret Dryburgh, a natural classical instrumental music. Dryburgh, who sang second alto and musical genius and Norah Margaret Dryburgh, a fifty-year-old is said to have had perfect pitch, Chambers, a skilled conductor. Con­ English Presbyterian missionary, gave the starting notes. Conductor, ducting this music forty years I~ter, had an invaluable gift - an incredi­ Norah Chambers brought these ar­ for survivors of the prison camp, I ble musical memory. Together, with rangements to life. Because of her developed a deep respect for their nothing but pencil and paper, the skill, each rehearsal became a haven musical accomplishment as well as two women wrote down the music of from the drudgery and depriv\'ltion a first-hand knowledge of the Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Grieg, of prison camp existence. As An­ technical lessons wordless music Handel, and Brahms, and arranged toinette Colijn Mayer says in the has for choral musicians today. The the works for four-part a cappella film, "It became very important to singing of instrumental music en­ women's voices, adding neutral get bars 32 and 33, in practicing, courages tremendous individual syllables to articulate the notes. The just perfectly. That takes your mind growth in the singer's awareness of women called their choir a vocal or­ off whether you're hungry, or thirsty, phrasing, of vocal purity and its ef­ chestra'. or dirty, or sick, or whatever." After fect on intonation, of vocal agility, The first concert by the vocal or­ sight-reading a new score, a cap­ and of the necessity for both the chestra had a profound effect on the pella, in the secrecy of the shed precise and elastic qualities of camp. Not only were the singers, behind the kitchen, the women of rhythm. Surpassing the technical who spoke different languages, able each voice part rehearsed separately lessons of the music of "Song of to speak with one voice through until they mastered all the notes. Survival," however, is the celebra­ music, but the beauty of their music Norah Chambers then put the voices tion of the message that through affected their captors as well. One of together, giving vocal syllables, music, hope can emerge out of the camp regulqtions was that no dynamics, tempi, articulation, and despair. large meetings would be permitted. phrasing orally since only a handful The music of "Song of Survival" The music of that first concert of the women could read music. Ac­ was created in a prison camp of changed that, as captor sat down cording to the women who survived Dutch, British, and Australian with captive to listen. the camp, the experience of rehears­ women and children interned near The vocal orchestra sang a total of ing was liberating in itself. Norah Palembang on the island of Sumatra thirty pieces that were favorites in Chambers, with her little band of during World War II. These women the symphonic and piano repertoire thirty half-starved singers, em­ and children were just a fraction of of the pre-war years (see appendix phasized for us the meaning of the the thousands interned in the Dutch for complete listing). There is a choral profession: to enrich lives East Indies after the Japanese oc­ tremendous variety of music in the through music. cupation in March, 1942. Some of manuscripts. The music includes The accomplishment of Margaret the internees were teachers, military both classical standards such as the Dryburgh and Norah Chambers, nurses, missionaries, and nuns while "Largo" from Dvorak's New World writing down from memory and ar­ others were wives of colonial Symphony and Tchaikovsky's "An­ ranging thirty instrumental pieces, government officials, military per­ dante cantabile" from the String is noteworthy. What musical sonnel, planters, and businessmen. Quartet in D, Op. 11 and light knowledge and technical skills Some were interned directly from classics such as Paderewski's would be necessary to prepare one their homes. Others were captured "Menuet a I'Antique" and Dvorak's manuscript for the vocal orchestra? after surviving the bombing and "Humoresque." These latter two 1. PRECISE MUSICAL RECALL sinking of their evacuation ships. pieces had been popularized in the a. What are the compositional Stripped of all tangible remem­ pre-war years, the "Menuet" by ~Iements of the piece, such brances of their past civilized lives Paderewski himself and the as melodies, counter­ and plagued by starvation and "Humoresque" by Fritz Kreisler. melodies, harmonies, bass disease, the imprisoned women still "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" was lines, inner parts, rhythms, popularized by the well-known counterrhythms? British pianist Myra Hess who used it b. What is the structure of the Hennings is director of the Peninsula Women's Chorus of the San Francisco repeatedly as an encore. Other piece? How does it begin, Bay Area. works, such as "Londonderry Air" develop, end? February 1987 Page 23 SUPERB SOUND ...•....... FAST, ON TIIIIIE.DELI"ERY REPRODUCTION',·· has a com- AT COMPETITIVE PRICES . -. 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