MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2787, 3 June 1916, Page 9

MUSIC.

flisr Tsbblb Clem Orchestral Music. Orchestral conccrts are, alack, few and far between in Wellington.. "An. orchestra, available for. week-night concerts, is a delicate plant to rear, alid'iis Welling--, ton has grown from a town to a city, tha task has become more an'd more difficult, instead of the reverse as one would suppose, owing to circumstances which , cannot bo controlled. . Last year, Mr. Bernard Page mado a valiant effort to galvanise into life the grey.ashes'of'the old Orchestral Society, aud succeeding very well, managed to provide a concert which' gave promise of something durable, but a single concert was the only product of the effort. This year Mr. Page hopes to do better. On Tuesday next tho resuscitated society will give its second concert at tlie Concert Chamber, and for that occasion aro rehearsing tho adagio movement of Beethoven's Second Symphony, a very beautiful passage from one of the favourites of the much-neglected (in these parts) and will essay tlje fa.mous "Brandenberg" Concerto of Bach for painoforte, violin and flute, with Messrs. Baxter Buckley, Haydn -Beck, aud A. P. Truda

as soloists. The orchestra will also play a Berceuse by Jurnefelt, with violin solo by Mr. Beck, and Mr. Lestrup, "the great Dane," will sing. As the Concert Chamber is restricted as to seating capacity, tho obvious course for those intending to bo present is to book their seats. Recently in Sydney,a new work by Mr, Alfred Hill, a sonata for trumpet and orchestra, was performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, which has received 0-subsidy of from the New South Wales Government and has to give concerts for students in return.