Orchestral Players Needed
WONDER how many pianists in New Zealand could perform Beethoven’s C Major Concerto one Thursday evening and follow it up with the Grieg A Minor on the following Thursday? I have just heard Olive Campbell play the first from 4YA, and by the time this appears in print I shall have heard the second also. If the Grieg is as expertly done as the Beethoven ii will be something to look forward to; and it will be expertly done, for Mrs. Campbell never gives a performance that is not interesting, musicianly, and professionally brilliant. After hearing most of our pianists doing Concertos to the accompaniment of that poor orchestral substitute, the Second Piano, I found it refreshing to hear the 4YA Orchestra in the Beethoven. It was a pity that such a forceful player could not have had a larger, more imposing orchestral background, but with the numbers at their disposal the orehestra made the most of theif supporting part. It is to be hoped that after the war wé will have a blossoming of orchestral talent, and that more players will be able to concentrate on the two or three instruments which in New Zealand afe rarer than diamonds, namely, oboe, French horn, and bassoon.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 305, 27 April 1945, Page 13
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