MUSIC FOR OTAGO'S CENTENNIAL
NZBS Will Play Important Part UNEDIN, always a home of good music, will have the full co-operation of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service when the city presents the musical part of the Otago Centennial celebrations in the middle of next year. With Dr. V. E. Galway (who is well known to South Island sadio listeners as an organ recitalist and lecturer) as chairman of the Musical Festival Committee, some notable programmes are being planned. The first appearance of the National Orchestra in the South Island next year
will be at the Dunedin Town Hall on Saturday, April 3. On Monday, April 5, there will be a choral concert with piano accompaniment, and on Wednesday, April 7, the orchestra will be heard with massed choirs of male voices assembled from many parts of New Zealand. The programme for this concert may include Stanford’s Songs of the Fleet, and David’s The Desert. Both these works are for male voices with full orchestra. On the following Saturday, April 10, Mendelssohn's Elijah will be performed by a special chorus of from 250 to 300 voices, with the National Orchestra. The chief soprano soloist will be Isabel
Baillie, who will be on a tour of New Zealand _ during March and April under the direction of the NZBS. Isobel Baillie is famous among English sopranos and the critics have acknowledged that_her role in. Elijah is her greatest. She is already well known to New Zealand audiences, as she was
one of the four overseas soloists brought to this country in 1940 for the Dominion’s Centennial Musical Festival. (continued on next page)
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Now at the height of her fame, she will also appear at public concerts in each of the other three main centres, and in| studio recitals. Bizet’s opera Carmen will be produced in Dunedin for a season of seven nights in June, with the National Orchestra, conducted by Andersen Tyrer. Mr. Tyrer has been invited by the Otago Centennial Committee to conduct the choral concerts with the orchestra and also the operatic season. Negotiations are in train to bring soloists to take the main roles of Carmen (mezzo-soprano) and Don José (tenor) from England. It is expected that in each centre the operatic chorus will be composed of members of local choirs and musical societies.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 423, 1 August 1947, Page 14
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