Piano Music from Auckland

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 770, 23 April 1954, Page 14

Piano Music from Auckland

| BEAUTY may be in the eye of the . beholder, but it is also very much in the ear of the listener, says John _ Longmire, conductor of the Royal Auck. land Choir and of the Auckland Choral | Group, who is to be heard soon from 1YC playing and talking about "Piano Music I Like." There will be three programmes in this series, the first on Wednesday, April 28, at 7.30 p.m., and the others at about the same time on the following Wednesdays. "I will discuss and play some of my own favourite pieces,’ Mr. Longmire told The Listener, "and because I shall be speaking about what appeals to me personally, listeners may not agree with some of the things I have to say." Mr. Longmire will also be heard from 1YC on May 4, at 8.30 p.m., when he will give an introductory talk to a presentation by the Auckland Choral Group of John Ireland’s These Things Shall Be. Of this composer, Mr. Longmire says: "At 74 he stands firmly alone like a rock, as isolated and individual as his beloved Channel Islands." Examination Pieces A SERIES of programmes designed to help students taking the 1954 examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music will begin from 1YA on Sunday, May 2, at 3.45 p.m.

when Elizabeth Page will play from the studio the pieces set down for Grades 1, 2 and 3. Over the following three Sundays. at approximately the same time, she will play the remaining grades up to 7. Elizabeth Page is an English pianist now living in Auckland, and it was thought that students, who are, of course, familiar with their teachers’ interpretations of the. music, would find a second skilled interpretation at least interesting. perhaps valuable.