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AUCKLAND, which last year provided fire engines as a distraction while Lili Kraus played Brahms in the Town Hall, played its part again the other night, and supplied a moth-probably one of those huge ones they have up there. It was all very startling, until you knew just what was happening. Mme Kraus was playing the last of the Bartok Rumanian dances, as an encore, when she suddenly stopped. In a moment there was a low buzz from the audience, For all we knew the pianist might have met with some terrible calamity. But then there was the reassuring sound-after a long pause, though-of Lili Kraus apologising, and saying something about it being "very difficult’: a remark that could hardly have applied to the Bartok, to judge from how she had been playing. Then she completed the piece, and applause of quite the normal kind followed. Then the announcer took a hand. That interruption, he told us, was caused by a moth which, fascinated by the single powerful light over the piano (the only light in the place), had circled above Lili Kraus in a manner calculated to fascinate and hypnotise the whole audience. And at last it had settled on Mme, Kraus’s shoulder. Now, if only Goethe had been present. ...
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 13
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