Orchestra on way to China
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 5. The New Zealand National Youth Orchestra is on its way to China after a successful tour of Britain.
The orchestra will give concerts in Canton on Monday, and Tuesday, and in Peking next Friday and Saturday. Two concerts will be given in Japan before the orchestra returns home. It will give a welcome-home concert in the Christchurch Town Hall on September 20 before disbanding. During the orchestra’s 30 days in Britain, it presented 10 major concerts, while the Schola Musicum, Radio New Zealand’s orchestral trainees, gave five additional concerts. Twenty-three of the players were selected for the Festival Orchestra chosen from all the orchestras at the international festival of youth orchestras in Aberdeen.
The principal cellist, Roger Brown, was awarded a scholarship for the most promising cellist at the festival.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33941, 6 September 1975, Page 16
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