“CLASSIC” NIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 16

“CLASSIC” NIGHT

POPULAR PROGRAMME BY MUNICIPAL BAND

OPERATIC ITEMS Judging by the attendance and the applause at the Town Hall on Saturday evening the efforts of the Municipal Band to encourage the public appreciation of a better class of music are meeting with success. Saturday’s concert, a popular “Classic” night, included numbers by Mozart, Weber, Schubert, Beethoven, and Liszt. The band showed fine tonal quality and good balance and the work throughout was clean and well finished. Beethoven was represented by the “Andante con Moto” from the Fifth Symphony and Finale from the Fifth. Both movements were played with nice understaning and fine tonal effects were achieved. Perhaps the most popular was Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 6,” which was played with fine precision. The march “Idimenio” by Mozart and the tuneful Weber overture “Oberon” were both well received and another very popular item was Weber’s well-known “Invitation to the Waltz.” A selection from “The Valkrie” (Wagner) was attractively played, the descriptive and very dramatic music of Wagner’s opera being handled with fine control. Undoubtedly it was a most inspiring effort. A cornet solo, Schubert’s “Serenade,” played by Mr. Fred Bowes, and a euphonian solo, “Romance in F. Minor” (Keighley) by Mr. J. Purchase, added to the variety of the programme. Miss Nellie Lingard sang “In a Child’s Small Hand” (Engelhardt) “Husheen” (Needham) and several numbers that were enthusiastically demanded.