MUSIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 380, 14 June 1928, Page 14

MUSIC

Ernest Newman, critic of the London “Sunday Times,” is reporting radio concerts, provided they are worth while.

Richard Strauss is reported to have finished a symphony inspired by the poem of Richer, dorff, “.Morning, Noon, Evening, Night.”

Leopold Stokowski will again head the Philadelphia Orchestra next season, and his guest colleagues will be Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Sir Thomas Beecham, Clemens Krauss of Frankfort and Bernardino Molinari.

Mr. Browning Mummery, the Melbourne tenor, who returned to Australia as a leading tenor of the wil-liamson-Melba Opera Company, made his debut with that combination at His Majesty’s Theatre recently as Mario Cavaradossi in “La Tosca. « * •

Vienna, reports “Musical Courier,” is overflowing with Schubert ctntennial demonstrations. Plays and operettas on the subject of the composer s life are capitalising on the special public interest in Schubert this year. Atore concerts also are celebrating his memory, but in a dignified and disinterested way. » • •

Signor Guglielino Cattaneo, an Italian pianist, who was educated at the Milan Conservatory (Italy), and taught the pianoforte and singing in his native country, arrived in Wellington recently by the Marama from Sydney, with the intention of settling in Wellington. Prior to a visit to Australia, Signor Cattaneo gave concerts throughout the Orient, and the Press notices show the newcomer to be an artist with a fairly extensive repertoire of the works of Beethoven, Chopin, Lizst, and Scarlatti. * • •

Two Italian members of the Gonsaiez Grand Opera Company Orchestra recently sought admission to the New South Wales district branch of the Musicians' Union. The union opposed the application on the grounds that the applicants were members of an. organisation the members of which had entered into an agreement to return to Italy on the completion of the season. The matter was adjourned pending receipt of information from Signor Gonsalez on the subject.

Maria Jeritr.a, one of the world’s most famed prima donnas, a favourite in Vienna, Berlin. London and New York, is to sing

with the San Francisco Opera Asso-. elation next season. it is announced by Gaetano Msrola director. This wii: be her Westerr debut in her fav ourite medium opera. Notice ha: just been received of her recent debu; at the Royal Opera]

ot Copenhagen in the presence of the

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King and Oueen of Denmark. It is likely that Mme. Jentza will sing the role of “Tosca,” the part in which she has had her greatest success, for the opening of the season here. This character she studied musically and dramatically with Puccini. whose admiration of her was widely expressed at the time.

AVales has now its own orchestra, Sir Henry Wood conducted the first concert of the National Orchestra of Wales last month in the City Hall, Cardiff. This new orchestra, which has been established through the co-opera-tion of leading Welsh musical bodies, will be supported for the first year by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

It is computed there were 1,227 musical performances in New York last season, not counting private events, free concerts or movie programmes. This was no remarkable increase over the previous year. Of opera there were 272 performances, symphony 192, chorus 67, dance 65, song programmes 231, piano 151, violin 71, ’cello 17, other instruments 16, chamber music 42.