LUNCH-TIME RECITAL

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30802, 14 July 1965, Page 7

LUNCH-TIME RECITAL

The second of the series of lunch-time concerts devoted to the music of the romantic period; running parallel with the Combined Unit course in the faculty of arts at the University of Canterbury, will be given by Gloria Saarinen. Miss Saarinen, one of New Zealand’s distinguished young musicians, recently returned after three year’s study at the Royal Academy of Music. She has also travelled widely and learned from such eminent teachers as Alfred Cortot, Friedrich Wuhner and Richard Hauser. Her successes have been won in England, Germany, Austria, Canada, the United States and, of course, New Zealand, where, as Gloria

Manson, she was well-known by the time she had reached the age of 17. The programme for this recital includes Schumann’s Etudes Symphoniques, a work in which the principle of variation was extended to a degree which was to become important for later composers. Based on a theme “by an amateur,” the Baron von Fricken, guardian of Schumann’s then fiancee, this is a collection of studies somewhat orchestral, or symphonic, in character.

Other compositions to be played by Gloria Saarinen are Chopin’s Scherzo in C sharp minor and an Impromptu and some waltzes by Schubert.