Tribute to Sibelius
"THE National Orchestra of the NZBS is paying tribute this week to the great Finnish composer Jan Sibelius, who died on September 20 in his 92nd year. The scheduled first half of the Orchestra’s Wellington concert this Wednesday-October 2-will be replaced by three Sibelius works. They are the tone poem Finlandia, the legend The Swan of Tuonela, and the Karelia Suite. The ‘somewhat "nationalist" flavour of the amended programme is accounted for by the fact that orchestral scores of many of Sibelius’s more important works cannot be obtained from overseas at short notice. The items withdrawn are Haydn’s Symphony No. 99 in E Flat, and Death and Transfiguration, by Richard Strauss. Wednesday’s concert, which includes also Gustav Holst’s suite The Planets, will be broadcast by 2YC only. The Sibelius works will be recorded, however, and broadcast by all YC stations at 7.30 on Sunday, October 6. This programme will include a tribute by the New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 11
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162Tribute to Sibelius New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 11
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