Concerts Planned At University

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32384, 25 August 1970, Page 8

Concerts Planned At University

The School of Music of ; the University of Canterbury has announced an interesting and diverse ■ series of concerts and lectures for September.

Overseas visitors, N.Z.B.C. i Symphony Orchestra members, the Czech Quartet of the university and music students will contribute to a month’s offering which will conclude with a Bartok commemoration concert near the twenty-fifth anniversary of this composer’s death. The programme is: • ' Thursday, September 3: Amerindo d’Amato, sponsored by the Embassy of Italy in conjunction with the Dante Alighieri Society of I Christchurch, will give a recital which traces the of modern Italian ; piano music from such composers as Busoni to Dallapiccola.

Friday, September 4: Professor lan Parrott, head of the music department at the University of Aberystwyth, and an authority on Elgar, will lecture on “A Solution to 'the Enigma?” i Also promoted by the Italian Embassy and the ; Dante Society will be a performance of Vivaldi’s famous ! quaternion of concertos, “The Four Seasons,” on Thursday, September 17, at 5,15 p.m. Franco Domaneschi

I will be soloist, with the j Vivaldi Strings conducted by John Dodds.

On September 30, Bartok’s Third and Fifth String Quartets will be the basis of the Czech Quartet’s final appearance for the season in the subscription series organised by the extension studies department of the university. In addition, lunch-time concerts will be given on September 10 (“The Anatomy of a Quartet, No. 2”), September 17 (a recital by music students), and September 24 (a performance of Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments, played by members of the N.Z.B.C. Orchestra).