End-of-Season Concerts
SEPTEMBER 4 will mark the end of the Carmen season. The National Orchestra will then re-assemble jin full strength at Auckland for a series of symphony concerts to conclude the orchestral season. Richard Farrell Janet’ Howe, and Arthur Servent will appear as guest artists, and in addition to evening performances there will be at least one popular lunch-hour concert and several morning and _ afternoon concerts for school-children. The first of these concerts will be given at the Auckland Town Hall on Wednesday, September 8. Janet Howe will sing the "Farewell" arias from Tchaikovski’s Joan of ‘Arc, and Arthur Servent will sing "The Sun Returns" from Tchaikovski’s Eugene Onegin, and "Spring Song" from Wagner’s The Valkyrie. The main orchestral items will be a first New Zealand performance of Kabaleysky’s Symphony, Op. 19 Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor. and Moussorgsky’s tone poem Night on the Bare Mountain. Richard Farrell will play Tchaikovski’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor with the Orchestra at the Auckland Town Hall on Tuesday, September ~
14. This programme will include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Butterworth’s rhapsody A Shropshire Lad, and Rawsthorne’s Street Corner overture, the latter a first New Zealand performance. On Thursday, September 16, Farrell will play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major in a programme which will include Tchaikovski’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor and the first New Zealand performance of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for String Orchestra.
On Friday, September 17, and Wednesday, September 22, there will be two concerts for school children in the Auckland Town Hall. . Morning and afternoon programmes will be given in each case, and programmes will include a "Walk Through the Orchestra," Strauss’s Moto Perpetuo, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and other less well-known works. The September 22 concert, which is for upper forms, will
also include a performance of the third and fourth movements of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. A popular lunch-hour concert will be given on Friday, September 10. Among the items will’ be Berlioz’s Carnival Romain, the suite Cephale et Procis (Gretry-Mottl), Edward German’s Welsh Rhapsody, and Sibelius’s Finlandia. Tentative arrangements have been made for two concerts to be given in Wellington on October 2 and 5,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 478, 20 August 1948, Page 33
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