THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20492, 7 May 1938, Page 17 (Supplement)

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Tauber in Opera In London Richard Tauber, the tenor, will sing In opera in England for the first time ! during the season which opened at Covent Garden on Monday night. He will be heard in "Die Zauberflote" and "Die Entfuhrung." 3oy Violinist at Harmonlo Concert Alan LoTeday, the boy violinist from Palmerston North, played at the Christchurch Harmonic Society's two concerts this week. His numbers were Lalo’s "Symphonie Espagnole,” Kreisler’s "Tambourin Chlnols," and “Le Canari,” by Poliakin. An 11 Efficiency 11 Plcnlst Eileen Joyce, well-known to gramophonlsts through her numerous records, gave a recital at the Wlgmore Hall. London, last month. She Is a thoroughly proficient pianist, says a London writer. An American would say that efficiency was her middle name. With It goes a certain hardness that has prevented her so far from ranking with the exclusive company of the great. Yet she is distinctly above the average, whether In dexterity or in intellectual penetration. One is tempted to use a horrible colloquialism and call her the pianist of the mezzo-brows, for she probes beyond those who enjoy only superficial brilliance, but not deep as to satisify the adepts. That is what one gathered from the sequence of Bach, Liszt. Haydn, and Busoni with which she opened her programme. Eileen Joyce did a broadcasting tour New Zealand a couple of years ago. Music Moments Dan Foley, the Irish tenor, has been singing at picture theatres in Wanganui and Palmerston North this week. The Weintraubs, those masters of syncopation, are drawing large audiences in the South Island.