THE WORLD OF MUSIC.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20272, 14 August 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)

THE WORLD OF MUSIC.

lYluslo for “Aren’t We All?” The Incidental music for next Wednesday’s production of Lonsdale's brilliant comedy, “Aren’t We All?” by the Hamilton Piaybox wil bo provided by (lie Hamilton Trio- —Mrs A. English (piano), Miss Margaret Hoe (violin) nnd Miss Helen llcywood (’cello). Molselwltscb, Over the Air. Benno Moiseiwitsch will give three concerts in Auckland next week. To-morrow night, at Wellington, the great pianist will be the star of a • celebrity concert which will be broad- j cast, lie will be heard in Beethov- I oil’s Concerto “The Emperor, ’’ in j which ho will bo associated with 2YA j augmented concert orchestra under I Leon do Manny. Don Cossacks In New Zealand. The Don Cossacks, singers and' dancers, are drawing large audiences ' in tin* South Island. An interesting personality is Nice- ; las Kostrukoff, the conductor of Hie j parly. “ I am a self-taught musician,’’ lie ’ said, “hut then, every Cossack is born ; with a soul for his music—and by his ! music I mean Iho Iradilional folk music ; of Hie. Cossacks of Ihe Don or Kuban; or Ihe I'ral Mountains or Ihe Can- j casus. There are many varieties of j Cossack, as you may gather. We are j Ihe Don Cossacks and every member of my choir is a Cossack born and ; bred. The music we give, song or | dance, is Iradilional. and it has been sung or danced in Ihe manner In which . we present it for the past three ccnLovo of Music Among Children. In order to inculcate the love of good music in school children, Hie New South Wales Education Department has laid the. foundation of an exlensive library of phonograph records. At a cost of about iNxm, the department has purchased about 2000 records. which arc being classilled and parcelled lip for delivery lo schools throughout the Stale. The records represent a wide range (if music, from nursery rhymes for the younger children lo Hie heaviest j classics for Ihe more advanced elasses. ' Light operas, swell as Hilbert and Sulli- j The records will he loaned lo ; schools where there are phonographs ■ provided by I’arenls and Hili/.ens’ As 1 >oeialions or other organisations. The J j department will md buy maehines. j