Proms in Auckland
\V HEN 1YC offered us a week of listening to the first Auckland Prorns, at the rate of half a programme each evening, one suspected from previous experience that we might be getting a series of entrees and no roast. In fact, listeners were treated much better than that. It is true that the broadcasts missed out some good things heard by thosé in the Town Hall — the Sibelius ‘Second Symphony, for example. But the first halves included sotne of the most memorable iteéms-the lucidity and sympathy of Maurice Clare in the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4; and affectionate Enigma Variations; Mina Foley’s beautifully fresh and vigorous singing of Verdi. On Friday evening, the broadcast was switched to the second half of the programme to give listeners the gambol and the mimicry of Carnival of Animals. And on Saturday the three con-certi-Handel, Citnarosa and Mozartbrought the séries to an urbane and satisfying end, leaving thé (alas) hackneyed Fifth Symphony for the cash customers. The cOmmentaries perhaps worried ovefmuch about the audiefices’ failure to observe that informality which is de rigueur at Proms; but John Gordon’s talk on the history of the London Proms was a useful addition.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 10
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