MUSIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 168, 6 October 1927, Page 16

MUSIC

(By

F.1.R.)

Municipal music at Ipswich, England, is no mere dream of an idealist, but a living fact, the artists engaged for the ensuing season of municipal concerts including Irene Scharrer, John Goss, the Harp Ensemble, and the PI rani Trio.

M. Ignaz Friedman. the Polish pianist, who continued his voyage to America by the Niagara, w r ill give concerts in California on arrival. After a short stay in New York he will tour England. A South American tour has been planned for next year.

In ail of the Boy Scouts’ Association a concert will be given by the Royal Auckland Choir at the Town Hall on Monday night next. The choir, under the baton of Hr. W. E. Thomas, will also have the assistance of gold medallists at the recent competitions. Thd reserves are at Messrs. Lewis Eady and Son, Ltd.

W© have the voices and a State Conservatorium to train them, says a Sydney paper. A State Opera House would be a good chance for Australians to hear many important operatic scores, of which at the present time they are entirely ignorant. It is genera ly honed that the proposal to establish a State theatre, under private control, proves more than political promise.

Arrangements are now* in hand for ar Australian and New Zealand tour of an English orchestra under Sir Thomas Beecham next year. They will probably be completed on the return to Melbourne of Mr. Fred. McCrea, manager for E. J. Carroll, who left Auckland on Friday last on the termination of Friedman’s Australian and New Zealand tour. It is understood that several operatic artists will also accompany the orchestra.

Sir Henry Wood conducted a Brahms conceit recently at the Queen’s Hall. Tho O Minor Symphony—that great song of the passage from winter to spring—held the audience engrossed. From end to end there was no sign of restiveness in all the multitude of the standing listeners. English papers state that the performance was one of the best c»f the season. The slow movement, in particular, was played with rare warmth.

A complimentary concert tendered to Mrs. Sutherland, nee Miss Emily Reeves, will be given by the musical .societies of Auckland at the Town Hall on October 13. Part-songs will b© given by the Auckland Male Choir and Lyric Four; songs by Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Cyril* Towsey. Miss Mina Cal do tv and Messrs. Barry Coney and Blrrell' O’Malley; operatic selections from ‘ La Mascotte” by the Auckland Amateur Operatic Society; pianoforte quartette by Miss H. Judson. Mrs. C. Prime and Messrs. Eric Waters and Barry Coney, and pianoforte duo by M>s H. Judson and Mr. Barry Coney. Mr. Allan McElwain will, supply the humorous portion of the programme and the accompaniments will be played by Mrs. Macan4rew.

Famous Pianist to Visit Dominion MOISEIWITSCH COMING Concert lovers in New Zealand will be glad to hear that Benno Moisei-

witsch, one of the most popular, and one of the most brilliant pianists who has. ever visited New Zealand, is to return early next year under the management of J. and N. Tait. Moiseiwitsch recently completed a very successful tour of Java and the Straits Settlements, the people in both places going wild with enthusiasm. Immediately after the last recital in Java, which was attended by the Gov-ernor-General, IVioiseiwitsch was engaged for a double number of concerts, to commence in September, 1928, this being the flrqt time that any artist. has been engaged to appear in Java for two consecutive years. Following on this, his successful appearances in the Straits Settlement has induced a syndicate to put up a very substantial guarantee for him to make a tour of India and Egypt after the Java concerts. \ 'these engagements will follow his forthcoming season in Australia under the J. and N. Tait management. *

Two Italian operatic singers, Signor - ina Thea Carugati; coloratura soprano, and Signorina Aida G&mbino, dramatic soprano, are at present visiting Sydney, after a series of .performances in Japan. They were in*Tokyo with the other artis ts of plans for an operatic tour of Japan after the Tokyo season were abruptly ended by the earthquakes which occurred at that time., The majority of the principals returned to Italy, but the two ladies named resolved to continue th«iir travels, and accordingly came on to Sydney, after giving two concerts in Shanghai, says the Sydney “Morning Herald.” i At the Aeolian Orchestra’s next concert on November 22 * it' was decided to give a request programme, and with that end in view a vote ; of subscribers was taken. The following numbers have been chosen: ‘HI Trovatore” (Verdi), ‘Merry Wived ojf Windsor” (Nicolai), “Military j Symphony” (Ha3 r dn), “Cleopatra Mqrch” (Mancinelli), “Andante” (Leiiare), “Light Cavalry” (Suppe), “Funeral March of a Marionette” (Gounod), - “Gavotte from Mignon” (Thomas), J“Tales of Hoffman’ (Offenbach). The most popular selection was Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony,” but a* it has been chosen by the Bohemian Orchestra it could not be included. *