Wellington Chamber Music Players

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 51, 4 July 1930, Page 4

Wellington Chamber Music Players

To Broadcast From 2YA. OVERS of good music, interpreted by first-class artists, are advised to listen-in to 2YA on July 8, when a relay of selections rendered by the Wellington Ohamber Music Players will be carried out. Chamber music, which is probably the highest form of the art, is immensely popular in England, especially with radio listeners. Unfortunately, it has been presented in New Zealand to a limited extent only, and. consequently the musical public has been unable to conceive for this type of music the appreciation it deserves. However, several bands of talented artists have-been formed in New Zealand for the express purpose of interpreting chamber music, and it should be a, matter of time only before it, becomes as popular in this country as it ia in England to-day.

The Wellington Chamber Music Players comprise a number of musiclans having in their ranks many of Wellington’s leading artists, and- their impending concert should be much appreciated. Something of a novelty in the items presented will be a. duet between Claude Tanner, ‘cello, and L¢ de Mauny, violin, which vill be panied by the piano. They will render "Passacaglia" (Handel Halvorsen), 2 composition which has never been broadcast in New Zealand before. A quartet, "The First Movement of the -Piano Quartet in © Minor" (Strauss), will be presented by Evelyn de Mauny (piano), Leon de Mauny (violin), Frank Crowther (viola), and Claude Tanner (’cello),