Southern Tour by Orchestra

New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 527, 29 July 1949, Page 12

Southern Tour by Orchestra

HE National Orchestra of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service will end its North Island 1949 season with symphony concerts in the Wellington Town Hall, featuring concerto performances by the Russian-American pianist Aleksandr Helmann, on Tuesday and Thursday, August 23 and 25. One of the works' played will be the Mozart Piano Concerto in A Major, K.488. Following these two concerts there will be a period of rehearsal for the South Island 1949 season which will open at the Civic Theatre, . Christchurch, on Thursday, September 8. On September 9 there will be concerts for school children, both in the morning and the afternoon. The afternoon. programme will include a concerto performance by Judith Hollander, who will play Men--delssohn’s Concerto in G@ Minor. Another public concert will be given on Saturday, September 10. Ashburton will be the next stoppingplace on the tour. Here, on Monday, September 12, the Orchestra will give a schools concert in the afternoon and a public concert at night. On September 13 the Orchestra will travel by express to Dunedin and give two schools concerts on Wednesday, September 14. The first Dunedin symphony concert will be held in the Town Hall on Thursday, September 15, followed the next day by two more children’s concerts. A feature of the after--noon performance will be Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor (first movement only) by Gwyneth Dunn. The second public concert will be given on Tuesday, September 20, and it will feature Aleksandr Helmann in a concerto performance. > On Thursday, September 22, a public concert will be given in the Civic Theatre, Invercargill, followed the next day by two schools performances, and on Saturday, September 24, at a symphony concert, Aleksandr Helmann will probably be heard in the Mozart Concerto in A Minor, K.488. At the Oamaru Opera House on Tuesday, September | 27, a schools concert will be given in the afternoon and a public concert in the evening. Timaru will, hear the Orchestra in the Theatre Royal on Wednesday, September 28, and there willbe two schools concerts the next day. On Monday, October 3, and Tuesday, October 4, there will be rehearsals in the King Edward Barracks with the Christchurch Harmonic Society’s Choir for a presentation of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, which will be performed publicly in the Barracks on the evenings of October 5 and 6. Following the Christchurch season the Orchestra will visit the West Coast, where a fairly extensive tour will be undertaken. It is also hoped that performances will be given in Nelson and Blenheim. | The Orchestra will return to Wellington on about October 20. Tentative | arrangements from this date onwards include a short Wellington season and a visit to Masterton. Then a return season in Auckland is contemplated during November, including a trip to the Far North. It is also hoped to pay a short visit to Rotorua. \