A Bow to W.B.
\WARWICK BRAITHWAITE is now well into his stride as National Orchestra guest conductor for 1953, and it is time we returned his bow. The first subscription concert in Wellington sounded on this side of the loud-speaker like quite a brilliant occasion-a large and enthusiastic audience and an orchestra on its toes. The strings had a richness and warmth suggesting that, not only were their hearts in their fingers, but that there were probably more of them than there had been for some time past. Woodwind and brass were right on form. Robert Pikler’s Haydn *Cello-cum-Viola Concerto was one of the highlights of a programme that had much to commend it. Mr. Pikler seems to have returned to us an even better viola player than he was a _ violinist. He gave the Haydn with beautiful tone, rare elegance and ‘a fine sense of phrasing. An ofchestra responds differently to every conductor; but so it does, too, to. new music, to the state of the weather, or to the temper and temperature of the audience. Any or all of these things may have settled on the Orchestra for its April Wellington concert; but it was very obvious that. most of all, Warwick Braithwaite was already leaving his impress. As things are, they
are very well.
O.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 11
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219A Bow to W.B. New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 11
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