JOHN IRELAND'S MUSIC
ne IRELAND has long been re- ~ garded in England as one of the most significant composers of our time, and one who has contributed much to the English musical renaissance which began with Elgar and Delius. His 75th birthday, which falls next Friday, August 13, will be marked by three broadcasts from a link of. the YC stations at 8.45 p.m. on Wednesday, August 11, at 8.0 p.m. on Friday, August. 13, and at 7.15 p.m. on Sunday, August 15. These broadcasts will include recordings made at the National Orchestra concert in Christchurch last month when a special John Ireland programme ‘was played.
The main works in this series of broadcasts (programme details of which will be found on pages 32, 38 and 44 of this issue) are the Piano Concerto, played by the National Orchestra conducted by Warwick Braithwaite with Ernest Jenner as soloist, the symphonic rhapsody Mai Dun (also played by the National Orchestra), and the choral work These Things Shall Be, which will be performed by the Halle Orchestra and Choir conducted by Sir John Barbirolli. The Piano Concerto (to be broadcast on Friday evening) is a work of striking individuality, and in its. final movement there is a suggestion of modern jazz. It is one of his most popular works, and has been widely performed in England as well as in Moscow, Vienna and Budapest. T hese Things Shall Be (on Sunday) was written as a setting to J. A. Symond’s poem and first per-
formed at a BBC Symphony Concert in 1937. ‘ The Sonata in A Minor, which will be played on Sunday by Glynne Adams (violin) and Maurice Till (piano), gave Ireland his first outstanding popular success when it was performed in 1917 by Albért Sammons and William Murdoch during a dark period of the First World War. The film music and songs should help to give a rounded view of Ireland’s achievement as a composer, and this will be emphasised by the two talks about him by Scott Goddard, the eminent critic, and John Longmire, a friend of the composer, who has made his home in Auckland.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 19
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