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Isaac Stern arrives here Next Week
HE National Broadcasting Service has just received an album of four recordings from the sound-track of the film Humoresque. These comprise violin solos recorded behind the scenes by Isaac Stern . (standing-in for the film star John Garfield) and piano solos by Oscar Levant, played with an orchestra conducted by Franz Waxman, who also arranged the music for the film. These recordings are now being heard from various stations. Isaac Stern, whd has just concluded an impressive Australian tour, will be heard in person here next eek. He is the latest overseas artist x ‘to visit this country under contract to tite NZBS. The Australian Musical News said of Stern’s first Australian performance, in Brisbane, that it would be difficult to imagine a more satisfying concert, both in programme and performance. "His Caesar Franck Sonata and Bach Chaconne were presented in a manner which explained in detail every note in relation to its context, yet with such unobtrusiveness that the explaining was mever apparent."
Stern arrives in New Zealand on Monday, September 15, and makes his first New Zealand appearance at the Town Hail, Auckland, on Tuesday, September 16. Such are the demands on his time that he can spend only 10 days in this country. To give his six public recitals in this short period, all his travelling will be’ done by air. By the time the tour has been completed Stern and his accompanist, Alexander Zakin, will have given about 140 concerts in 11 months, and covered 33,000 miles to give them. The violins Stern carries are valued at £36,00. One is’a Guarnerius, made’ in Cremona in 1737, and the other is a G. B. Guadagnini, made in Parma in 1755. Each of the six concerts, two in Auckland, two in Wellington, ong in Dunedin, and one in Christchurch, will be broadcast, from 8.0 p.m. to 10.0 p.m. Details of the two Auckland concerts (on September 16 and 18) and of the first Wellington concert (on September 20) will be found in the programme pages of this issue,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 429, 12 September 1947, Page 9
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