Glancing Ahead—

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1032, 24 July 1930, Page 16

Glancing Ahead —

This Evening.—Bohemian Orchestra. August 16—Music Week begins. End of August—Backhaus Return Concerts. September 25 (about) —Auckland Choral Society. Coming—Florence Austral.

Applauding “The Messiah” "It is rare indeed that we have the chance now of hearing 'The Messiah’ in a way that Handel conceived it should be done, or indeed would have approved,” says “The Choir.” “It has been left to critics in the Northern papers to protest most strongly against the absolutely indecent applause which nearly always succeeds such tragic themes as 'He Was Despised’ or ‘All We like Sheep have Gone Astray.’ The bass solo, ‘Why Do the Nations’ is usually received with a torrent of applause as if everybody was eagerly asking, ‘Yes, indeed, why ever do they?’ and the gentleman who gracefully acknowledges his rendering of ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ is in accordance with his patrons in utterly failing to realise that the sound of the last trump is not exactly a subject for repetition or even of applause.” « « • Supporting Art The wealth and enthusiasm of the American music public is well demonstrated by the fact that the promoters of an intended tour of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, under Toscanini, anticipate fully a deficit of £40,000, yet are determined to see the matter through for purely artistic reasons.

Pagliacci Screened Leoncavallo’s “.Pagliacci” has been successfully Aimed, with Alba Novello as Nedda; Ferando Bertini. Canio; Mario Valle, Tonio; Giuseppe Iter rante. Silvia; and Francesco Curci as Beppo. To extend the opera, two Dal lets (one in each part), have been introduced, and special attention has been given? to the selection and singing of the chorus. Fortune Gallo, a well-known Italian grand opera impresario, arranged the screening of the popular opera after much difficulty and it is said that the demand Cor the film is enormous. From Amsterdam the theatre weekly “Variety” quotes Igor Stravinsky, famous modern composer, as say ing, “The sound screen is the future medium of the music art. The com posers will write for the great music public that sound has created. Sound films reach everywhere, with enor mous audiences gathered in the big houses, where once but small groups attended the concert halls. Jazz and the radio must play their part in the music art of the future.”