Music from the Festival
N a week of broadcasting from the Auckland Arts Festival, one was given the sense of being on familiar and safe ground, On Tuesday, the National Orchestra gave us Beethoven; on Thursday, Louis Kentner played César Franck and, again, Beethoven; on Saturday, an évening of opera, mainly of Carmen and Lohengrin, While the level of performance was understandably high, and the three evenings brought some rewarding things-the performance of the Eroica, for example--what one missed was a sense of freshness and discovery. In this respect, the concert of New Zealand composers (on the Friday) had a chance to score. Here, too, the quality of excitement was lacking-with a few notable exceptions, particularly the admirably sensitive rendering of Douglas Lilburn’s sonata by Antonia Braidwood and Henry Shirley. But it was new
musie being heard, and that surely is one of the functions of a festival. Apart from that, the week’s music remained firmly anchored in the 19th Century, and the word that has to creep in sooner
or iater 1§ "unadventurous,"
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 10
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176Music from the Festival New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 10
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