TRUST’S FIRST CONCERT
Music by Beethoven, Mozart, Bartok, and the New Zealand composer, Douglas Lilburn, will be featured tomorrow night in the James Hay Theatre, in the Canterbury Orchestra Trust’s first concert. William Southgate will conduct the concert, and an Australian violinist, William Hennessy, will be the soloist in Beethoven’s Romance in F.
Mr Hennessy is director of the recently formed Sydney Chamber Orchestra, which specialises in music of the eighteenth century. The two Mozart works on the programme are the Overture from “11 Seraglio,” and Symphony No. 38, in D. The orchestra will also play Bartok’s Three Transylvanian Dances (subtitled “Bagpipes, “Bear Dance,” and “Turkish Diversions. The Lilburn work was composed in 1947 for performance by the Boyd Neel String Orchestra during a tour of New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33967, 7 October 1975, Page 19
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