ANDERSEN TYRER BACK AGAIN

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 127, 28 November 1941, Page 11

ANDERSEN TYRER BACK AGAIN

ELLOW-PASSENGERS with Harold Williams on the trip from Australia were Mr. and Mrs. Andersen Tyrer, who will be remembered for theit stay here during the Centennial season, when Andersen Tyrer conducted the Centennial Orchestra, Though he was principally engaged in examining while in the Commonwealth, Mr. Tyrer took part in four celebrity concerts, at Sydney and Melbourne, appearing at one in his capacities as composer, pianist and conductor. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra presented his Dr. Faustus and his transcription of Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor was played by the Melbourne Orchestra. Melbourne also heard the first presentation in Australia of Vaughan Williams’s London Symphony, with Andersen Tyrer as conductor. Interest in Good Music . According to Mrs. Tyrer, who was interviewed by The Listener in Auckland last week, they both found Australian audiences spontaneous in their appreciation and genuinely interested in good music, Sydney and Melbourne, she said, each staged about 10 celebrity concerts

while they were in Australia, and yet the town halls were always crowded to capacity. Well Timed For his last patriotic concert in Melbourne Andersen Tyrer had undertaken to play the Tchaikovski Piano Concerto, said Mrs. Tyrer, and the last rehearsal provided quite a dramatic pieco of timing. They had to travel 240 miles to keep the rehearsal appointment and had arranged to start work at 3.0 p.m, They did not reach the Town Hall until 3.15, and as they went up the steps they heard the first chords of the concerto. The orchestra had decided that they were not coming. " My husband had only time to throw his hat down," said Mrs. Tyrer, " but he reached the piano in time and came in right on the note." New Music Andersen Tyrer has brought a quantity of new music with him and he hopes that he will have the opportunity of presenting some of it here in New Zealand. Among it is the late Sir Hamilton Harty’s work, Children of Lih, completed just before his death; the Vaughan Williams London Symphony; Weinberger’s Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree and some of Delius’s works.