“LONDONDERRY AIR" RIVAL?

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 15116, 27 October 1949, Page 5

“LONDONDERRY AIR " RIVAL?

A tune to rival the renowned “Londonderry Air” is among new recording. It is “What will you do, love?” sung by Richard Hayward, the veteran Irish ballad-singer (he is author and antiquary too) and his girl “discovery,” Zuilmah Hopkins. A critic says it is a pity that Hayward’s singing, and the accompaniment by Roy Robertson’s orchestra, are below standard. On the reverse side is “The humour is on me now.”

The Grillcr Quartet, internationally famous British team, gives a first-class performance of Beethoven’s String Quartet in F, Opus 95. Anatole Fistculari shows his high gifts as a ballet conductor in the Mazurka and Czardas from Delibes’ “Coppelia,” with the National Symphony Orchestra; Sidney Beer draws some fine playing from the same orchestra in what is questionably advertised as “L’Arlesienne Suites 1 and 2 (Bizet)”—in fact, throe movements from the first and one from the second. Admirers of Eric Coates will enjoy his conducting of the Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra in his “Rediffusinn March” and the’ waltz from “The Three Bears.”