Entertainer as proms soloist

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33067, 7 November 1972, Page 10

Entertainer as proms soloist

A popular entertainer, Peter Sinclair, is to be a soloist with the N.Z.B.C. Symphony Orchestra in the KZJB.C. Symphony prom season throughout New Zealand early next year. He will be narrator in "Peter and the Wolf,” by Prokofiev. The proms will begin in Invercargill on January 25 and finish at the Brooklands Bowl, New Plymouth, on February 28. The conductor, Alfredo Antonini. an American, and the N.Z.B.C. Symphony Orchestra will present seasons in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland, and single concerts in Timaru, Masterton, Palmerston North, Hamilton and Tauranga. As well as outstanding New Zealand-based soloists, the N.Z.B.C. has engaged a former New Zealand pianist, Georgina Zellan-Smith, who will return from London for the concerts. Other soloists include the soprano. Elisabeth Hellawell,

'the Mobil Song Quest runner- ! up, Patricia-Anne Shaw (also ! a soprano), and the Auckland baritone, Roger Creagh. I Elisabeth Hellawell will I appear in a Tchaikovsky proi gramme, and the other two | will sing duets from popular I Broadway show's. The other pianist to perlform in the proms is the I young Dunedin artist, Richard Mapp, one of Maurice Till’s pupils. Richard Mapp has already [performed with the N.Z.B.C. i Symphony, having been a ' stand -in soloist for a 'Dunedin concert in July.