ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 25 November 1930, Page 6

ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT.

On Thursday evening next the music-lov-ing section of the Christchurch public will be afforded tho opportunity of hearing orchestral music at its best, when the Orchestral Society's final concert for 1930 takes place at the Radiant Hall. The programme has been chosen with commendable discrimination, high calibre classics being judiciously interspersed with works of a more "popular" style, but nothing bizarre or tawdry is given a place. Tho German school is represented by Men delssohn's No. 3 (Scottish) Symphony-Allegro and Finale —and Otto Nicholas's very tuneful Overture on "The Merry Wives of Windsor"; French composers, Saint-Saens, with "JDanso Macabre," and Massenet in Mr Toomey's vocal number in first part from "King of Lahore"; British composers by Coleridge-Taylor in the Military March from "Otello"; and the society's president, Mr R. A. Home, in a new composition written for the occasion, "In Memories"—-to per petuato the memory of the late G. H. Bonnington, one of the society's earliest and most earnest supporters—which has been very ably orchestrated by another Christchurch musician, Mr Arthur Lilly, A.R.0.0.; and Herman Lohr, with a song, "Pagan." to be sung by Mr Toomey In the second part* Italian composers by Puccini, whose famous "Madame Butterfly" selection is in eluded. Edward Macdowell is the American representative on a very varied programme The box plan is now open at The Bristol.