A MUSICAL OPENING

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 84, 3 January 1920, Page 12

A MUSICAL OPENING

I . FOB TB.E NEW. .YEAR. ~ The year 1920 lias, in Wellington at all events; been ushered in with, a j "grand slain" o£ liigh-class music. "In 0 Wellington the Williamson" Grand-Opera h Company, with a very extensive repern toire, is relighting tlio torch', of the > lyric stage, which ,Ims been out for l» spmo years.-' Ami before this elaborate J combination will leavo the Umpire' City for the south, Miss Daisy Kennedy, a s violinist of rare powers, will appear at t the Concert Chamber, under the manage- !, ment of J. and N. Tait. Then to follow . almost immediately is the orchestra of n the New South AYales Government Cons ecrvatoiro, under M. Henri . VerbrugB glien, the most noted orchestral event 8 that ever happened in New Zealand, for never have we hard within o.ur boune daries so artistio a combination of instrumentalists as this orchestra presents, as controlled by the eminent Belgian s conductor. It touches a height in or-. 1 chestral music that-has net been within ') tho power or capacity of any local orchestra or combined' orchestras in this country to attain to, and- as such there ' is little doubt that it will 1» honoured v ". according to its worth.