SEVENTY-FIVE!

Radio Record, 15 July 1938, Page 23

SEVENTY-FIVE!

DUNEDIN CHORAL SOCIETY'S BIRTHDAY AN important stage in Dunedin’s muisical history will be reached next month when the Dunedin Choral Society celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary. Preparations are well under way for a fitting ce'ebration of this event. Musical interest will be stimulated by three public concerts of a pleasanily varied nature. Oratorio excerpts will be presented on August 8, Dr. Y. 3K. Galway being the guest conductor. Selections of three works whick have always been popular with Dunedin audiences will be given-Mendels-sohn’s "Hymn of Praise," Haydn’s "Creation," and Handel’s "Judas Maceabeus." At the second concert, on August 9, the society’s Madrigal Club, under the enthusiastic conductorship of Mr, Alfred Walmsley, will be featured. Celebrity soloists will help to make this an outstanding evening. Artistically the climax of the festiyal will be the concert of modern works on August 13. The main offering will be Yanghan Williams’s "Sea Symphony," which wag introduced te Dunedin last year by Mr. Walmsley This concert will also include the thrilling "Choral Dance" from "Prince Igor," the great overture and festival seene from "'Tannhauser," and the noyelty "Burlesque" for piano and orchestra by Richard Strauss. Miss Mavis MacDonald will be the soloist in this oumber, which has not before been heard in Dunedin. The composer of "Sea Symphony." Mr. Ralph Vanghan Williams, bas written to the society wishing it every success at its forthcoming festival.