HOLLAND'S FESTIVAL
| [HE Holland Festival, like the festivals |. of Edinburgh and Salzburg, is recog- | nised as one of the outstanding cultural events of the European summer. Last year’s festival-the fourth-was in every way a pronounced success, so that when it ended the president could say: "It has been a hard struggle, but at last our Holland Festival is acquiring a face of its own." The festival gave a feast of drama, ballet, pictorial art and music, from which four musical programmes, received by the NZBS from Radio Ned? erland, are to be broadcast from YC and YZ stations during the next few months. These programmes, of which fuller details will be found on the programme pages of this issue, will be heard first from 1YC, at 8.39 p.m. each day, from June 22 to June 25. They feature the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Hague . Residentie Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Bach Society. and the soloists Jo Vincent and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprand), Laurens Bogtman (bassbaritone) and Hans Henkemans (piano). Music by Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Mozart and Bach is heard in the first three programmes, and the series ends with works of the Dutch composers
Rudolf Mengelberg, Alfons Diepenbrock and Henk Badings. New Zealanders who want to understand better the past way of life of new New Zealanders who have come here from Holland will be interested in Brenda Bell’s talks, Live and Learn in Holland. Miss Bell, who was in Europe last year, describes a visit to a Dutch Folk High School, where grown-ups of all ages, social levels and nationalities live and study together; she gives a picture of the struggles of the Dutch with the sea; describes a stay on a Dutch farm; and rounds off the series with a talk about an emigration course — a weekend school at which she talked to people who are leaving (or want to ‘leave) Holland to settle in New Zealand and other parts of the world. Miss Bell’s talks are being heard at present in the 2YA Women’s Session, which will broadcast the second on Friday, June 26, and in 1YA’s Feminine Viewpoint, which will broadcast the third on. Monday, June 22.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 26
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363HOLLAND'S FESTIVAL New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 26
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