LUNCH-TIME CONCERTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 5

LUNCH-TIME CONCERTS

Sir,-In_ a récent issue, you reported that Mr. "Warwick \Braithwaite said- in an interview that he knew of no, lunchtime concerts in London, but I would like to tell .you of the City Music Society. — This Society was formed by music lovers after the midday concerts at the Royal Exchange had to be discontinued owing to the danger of flying bombs. It has grown from a smali group to a flourishing society which arranges lunchtime concerts every Tuesday, except for short breaks during holidays, The concerts were originallygiven at the’ Concert Hall of the Guildhall School of Music, and several of the halls of the City Livery Companies, but now are held at the Bishopsgate Institute near Liverpool Street Station. Very wellknown artists have performed, including Colin Horsley, Denis Matthews, Louis Kentner, among the pianists; and the concerts are greatly appreciated by City workers who cannot always get to the West End for evening concerts and recitals, Occasionally a talk or lecture on music is given and I have had the pleasure of hearing, among others, Boyd Neel, Eric Harrison and. Gerald Moore. Lesser-known and younger artists are also given the experience of appearing in public, and several have benefited by the publicity afforded. In addition to the lunch-time concerts others are occasionally arranged for the early evening at the Hall of the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company jn

the City.

EDITH D.

CARTER

(Mt. Maunganui).