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MISS DAISY KENNEDY

6 » ® RETURN OF THE BRILLIANT 11 VIOLINIST When uncommon beauty is wedded to artistry in a rarefied form there can be no question as to what life holds for the o fortunate possessor} Probably in no artist n who has ever visited New Zealand has i; tho dual chann been so perfectly exemplified as in the casa of Miss Daisy Kennedy, the brilliant young Australian violinist, who returned to the Concert Chamber on Saturday evening to exert her siren sway over an audience that 0 was plainly en rapport with tho per--9 former every moment she was on tho 0 platform. Some hundreds of people had 0 reluctantly to be refused admission. Miss ■3 Kennedy is probably the. most gifted 2 lady exponent of tho violin heard in 0 New Zealand for a generation, and hor j> only peer in the opposite 6ex in that 2 period is tho incomparable Misclia ~ Elman. Her tone is strong, rich, and singularly pure, and she has tho raro e capacity of being able to get the naliio :! roundness of tono from every inch of her bow, so that her bow-arm is something illuminative for students to observo and profit by. Her high degree of technical perfection may bo taken {or granted, but tho clear elegance of lier management of the appogiatura—so often slurred—tho amazing rapidity and certitudo of her fingering, and her poetio interpretative sense place her in the highest class. Another tribute (and a one that cannot be undervalued) is hor is strong rhythmical sense. Rhythm is the > poul of music if melody lie tho heart 5. and form tho body, and from the ie first number to the last this elusive yet d trea6urable element—it is something more 1- than mere time—illumined every number, it There are cultured musicians who lack n this natural attribute to musical etcel's lence—for lit cannot be taught—and probi. ably wonder why thev cannot please d audiences whilst less well-equipped people y do. Rhythm as between artist and audits ence may be likened to "tune" in wire's less telegraphy, and Miss Kennedy has h it in abundance. ' Tho programme arranged by Miss ~ Kennedy are models of perfection. It d is not every artist who can draw up a r " programme. Hero the visitor is always " intuitively right On Saturday evening r her first bracket consisted of five seventeenth and eighteenth century numbers, e placed in nice relation one to the other. '• It was inspiring to hear Miss 8 mastery once more in Tartini's ■" "Variations on a Theme by CoreUi, which calls for great strength in bowing, • and a versatility in approach of the l " various strenuouß styles of the varm--3 tions; yet widely divergent as they are, the strong march of the music never faltered nnd no note was written by the composer that did not get full value. Once more the solemn, sonorous beauty of Bach's "Air for G String", made its appeal to tho innermost emotions. In sparkling relief was played Milandre's ear-tickling "Minuetto," with its strongly mnrked time, quaintly emphasised by 0 tne pizzicato note at the beginning of e each phrase of the first and last pasi. sages. The playing of' this number s caused boundless delight. There was a a more subtle charm to the educated taste a in Barbella's "Lullaby," a muted drone, l- involving in the double-stopping a world of curiously-beautiful close harmonies. [. Once again came tjie correct contrast ) in Gossec's laughing "Tambourin." The J chef d'oeuvre of the programme was the familiar but sver beautiful Mendelssohn * "Concerto in E Minor," the diverse romanticism and entrancing melodies of J which were played with majestical au--1 thnrity and charm. The elegant ali legro molto appassionato." and ' ani dante" movements were never better played in the writer's memory. The sec--5 ond bracket was'a casket of musical jewels. It included Pantschenkos Sonnet," Cesar Cui's "Orientale," Rosenbloom's "Valso Scherzo," a wondcr- , fully lmnressive "Poem" in sombre mood by M'Ewen, Kriosler's quaint "Tam- : hourin Chinois" and, as an encore, Cyril Scott's drowsy "Lullaby," each number being. invested with distinctive character and mood. Finally Miss Kennedy d*lighted the audience in her interpretation of D'Ambrosio's "Ciuusonctfca and Wieniawski's difficult "Souvenir de Moscow," at onee the hope and despair of 'advanced students. Tho encore piece was Zsolt's clever bit of musical kinematography, "Dragonflies.'; m whfech one can almost see the big opalescent fly humming low over the woodland and. water, until, pausing to sip, it falls a victim to the ever-watchful trout. At her farewell concert to-morrow evening Miss Kennedy is to play Paganini a n "Concerto in D Major," a Beethoven o "Romance," Schumann's 'The loun--8 tain," Zimbalisfs "Russian Dance, and 3 "Dragonflies."

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 133, 1 March 1920, Page 6

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MISS DAISY KENNEDY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 133, 1 March 1920, Page 6

MISS DAISY KENNEDY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 133, 1 March 1920, Page 6

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