FOR RADIO TOUR

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 8 March 1935, Page 17

FOR RADIO TOUR

Vincent Aspey, Talented Violinist, Engaged to Give N.Z. Recitals USIC lovers of New Zealand will shortly be treated to some truly delightful radio recitals from the four national stations by that talented solo violinist,-Mr, Vincent Aspey, of Auckland. Mr. Aspey, who was associated. as soloist with the Mareo Symphony Orchestra, which last season held a series of successful concerts in Auckland, has been engaged by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, and will start his tour of performances on

March 138 from 4YA. On March 17 he will play "Symphonie Espagnole" with the 8YA Orchestra, and on March 18 "Sonata in G Major," with. piano accompaniment, On March 24, from 2YA, he will play the well-known Mendelssohn "Concerto," with the 2YA Orchestra, and the following evening "Sonata in D Minor." with piano accompaniment, His tour will be concluded at 1YA on March 380, with a group of solos. Mr. Aspey proved to be immensely popular with the Auckland audiences, a statement which is evident in a clipping from a report of one of his performances. which reads as follows: "Phe success of .the concerto lay in the sympathetic interpretation of an essentially beautiful work, rather than jn mere yirtuosity. At the conclusion the audience recalled Mr. Aspey again and again, in the hope that the rule concerning encores could be relaxed." Another report states that the Auckland Town [lal] was filled with an audience whose enthusiasm reached a climax after the playing of the Mendelsohn Violin Concerto,