Concerts to help organ fund

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32977, 25 July 1972, Page 10

Concerts to help organ fund

A group of leading Christchurch musicians, some of whom took part earlier in a benefit concert for Bangladesh, will give a series of benefit concerts in the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church this week for the Town Hall Organ Fund.

The concerts will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and the programme will include, as well as classic works, a composition by Douglas Lilburn, and a setting by Dorothy Scott, a member of the Christchurch Civic Orchestra, of a poem by Jacques Prevert, “To Paint the Portrait of a Bird.” Musicians taking part include Louis Yffer (violin), leader of the Civic Orchestra, Rosemary Stott (piano), Richard Mapp (piano), Russell Kent (organ), and Keith Spragg (clarinet). James Cahill (tenor) will sing songs by Spohr, Mussorgsky, Lilburn, and Ravel in the second of the concerts.

Rosemary Stott will accompany Mr Cahill, and the other half of the Saturday concert will be provided by Richard Mapp, who will play works by Beethoven and Chopin. On Friday night Louis Yffer and Rosemary Stott will play works by Beethoven and Dvorak, and Russell Kent will play works by Clerambault, Bach, and Vieme. On Sunday night members of the Civic Orchestra, the St Mark’s Boys’ Choir, and the Oxford Terrace Choir will be featured. The pro-

gramme will include Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, Beethoven’s Duo for Bassoon and Clarinet, and Bloch’s "Intrada,” for viola and piano, as well as Dorothy Scott’s work, which is scored for narrator, violin, flute, bass, harp, and piano. The choir will present the cantata, “What God Ordains Is Always Good,” by Johann Pachelbel.