An engaging trifle...

A light souffle was provided in the middle of the program, with "Three Waltzes" by Gordon Getty.

The University Chamber Chorus, conducted by John Butt, gave clear, fresh performances of ``Victorian Scenes'' (1993) by Gordon Getty, a guest composer on the program. These are six settings for two-part choruses of women and of men, with piano, of poems by Tennyson and A.E. Houseman (three each). As the music picks up very nicely the speaking rhythm of each poem, after the manner of Britten, they are refreshingly direct pieces. This approach is not varied however and the songs repeat on themselves, the lack of contrast constituting this as a set not a cycle.

They were pleasing and...even a bit seductive and more pliant than in their local premiere two years ago.