Sargent's Intense Vitality

Radio Record, 3 July 1936, Page 15

Sargent's Intense Vitality

LJKE Sir Thomas Beecham there is an intense vitality about | Dr. Malcolm Sargent, the famous conductor, who visits New Zealand next month. When he rides a horse he prefers a gallop to a canter. When he conducts an orchestra he seems to prefer "furioso’’ to "‘andante."’ But, again, like Sir Thomas and Bruno Walter, he plays the piano . with a restrained and. delicate touch quite foreign to his use of the baton. Two years ago this young conductor was so seriously ill that it seemed as if he would never be able to take up his work again. Yet he won through, and his swiftly-moving hands are once more coaxing high notes from middle-aged sopranos and giant blasts from trombone players. A debonair, amusing, first-rate musician with a memory like an "elephant"’ and the enthusiasm of a, schoolboy. a ae Cn EE EE LE AE OE HB EE OO OD OO ES ES OF OS SF OS EP OD OD C8 GO ED GP OD EP SY GP EP EP OF EP OP BN