POPULAR MOISEIWITSCH.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 21

POPULAR MOISEIWITSCH.

The success and popularity in Australia of Benno Moiseiwitsch are mdi - cated by the fact that he is on his fifth ;, tour of the Commonwealth—surely aI record for an individual artist. _. The J popular pianist is thoroughly enjoying . his return visit to the scene of his many - previous triumphs; and is keenly anti-- - cipating his tour of New Zealand, - which begins at Christchurch on July 1 ) 29. Messrs. J. and N. Tait are prcr scnting Moiseiwitsch at the peak of ; his career. ' He appeals to all classes of musical appreciation. • He is a perfect interpreter of Chopin, but his genius is by no means limited to one composer. Moiseiwitsch is considered by competent critics to have no equal in the playing of modern works. His knowledge of the modern music ■of Russia, Italy, Spain, France', and ' other countries is inexhaustible. Enormous audiences in all parts of the 1 world have paid tribute to the breadth .and depth of .his playing; the variety i of his programmes; his personal appeal; his thorough mastery of technique; the crispness. of his.claying; and . his easy triumph over the-subtleties of difficult compositions. The Christchurch ■season is for two nights only, July 29----31; Dunedin, August 2-5; Auckland,' August 17-19; Wellington, August, 21----24.