EXHIBITION MUSIC.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 226, 21 September 1906, Page 5

EXHIBITION MUSIC.

THE FLAYERS AND THE PROGRAMME. By Telegraph-—Own Correspondent.) CHEISTCHUECH, this day. Mr TTffl regards himself as extremely fortunate in having secured the services of Mr George Weston as leader of the Exhibition orchestra. Mr Western is an enthusiast of wide experience, unbounded energy and talent. It was he who led the Cowen orchestra so successfully at the Melbourne Exhibition, and subsequently the Victorian orchestra. Mr Cyril Monk, who will be deputy leader, has behind him a successful musician's career in London. In addition to being a sterling violinist he is also a vocalist of no mean order. Among the reed and ' brass players, Mr Hill has secured quite a formidable array of Australian talent. ' players of a calibre quite uaapproaeh ; able in New Zealand. He has been help- • ed in his selection by the fortuitous ' fact that Mr Marshall" Hall is about :o 1 take a seven months' holiday, and coi!----1 I sequently a number of members of his ' j orchestra are available for selection. The music to be played is not to by ' of the ordinary claptrap nature at any time, but neither will it be too strict'y ■ classical. The standard classics will of ; course be in evidence. The colonial com- • posers are not to be neglected. A symphony by Professor Marshall Hall, of 1 Sydney, will be played. A fantasia for ■ the piano and orchestra, and a trio for • the violoncello and piano >»y Ernes: Truman, of Sydney, will also be produced. Mr John De Lainy will send over ! some of his works. Mr F. Crutsam ha.- ---' j promised a contribution, and two eon i cert overtures by "Mr Auguste Siede. of I Melbourne, are also upon the list. Mr 1 Alfred Hlli's Maori symphony (a string quartette) will be given for the first ; time in New Zealand, and his lates, ' composition, a sonata tor the violin ami ; piano, will be produced for the first tim.Mr Hill also hopes to secure compos! tions from Mr Maugban Baxnett, of 1 Wellington, Mr Julius Lemmer, of Nei- ! son, and other New Zealanders. Mr : HiH is confident that the formation of the orchestra along the lines now arranged will be of immense benefit to the cause of music in New Zealand.