Arts diary

Press, 6 May 1980, Page 17

Arts diary

VISUAL ARTS ROBERT MCDOUGALL ART GALLERY (Botanic Gardens) COUNTENANCES FROM THE PAST. June 8. ALL AT SEA. June 2. Paintings of seascapes and boats. EARLY NEW ZEALAND PAINTED. June 8. A new land as seen by eyes, trained in England. F I L M SCREENING, “TRAVEL LOG.” June 8. The settlement and development of New Zealand relived through paintings. Monday to Friday, 11 a.ni., 2 p.m.; weekends 2 p.m., 3 p.m. DANTE’S INFERNO. June 3. Ten etchings and , aquatints by Ronald Kowalke. SEASCAPE Neil Dawson, June 22. A contemporary

sculptural vision of the sea. JOHN PANTING. June 22. A lareg metal floor sculpture. VAN DER VELDEN. Pre--1890. Paintings and drawings from his early days in the Netherlands. NOT FIGURATIVE. June 17. New Zealand artists display the diverse vision of the artist and world. OLIVIA SPENCER-BOW-DEN. June 17. Watercolours painted in Europe, England, and New Zealand. LANDSKIP FROM OUR LOCALE. June 17. Seven painters view New Zealand land forms. CERAMICS. Selection of New Zealand and oriental ceramics. CSA GALLERY

(66 Gloucester Street) ANNE CULY. May 11).

STEPHEN GIBB AND MICHAEL DEAVOLL. (May 9). BENSON AND HEDGES AWARD PAINTINGS. (May 10). STUDIO 393 (393 Montreal Street) Six Auckland potters. THEATRE COURT THEATRE. “Bedroom Farce,” by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by Bryan Aitken. To June 7. Studio: Elizabeth Moody . in “Madame Mere.” MUSIC SATURDAY: Scuola di Chiesa with the Venetian Brass Ensemble and the Cashmere High School Chamber Orchestra. Bach and Shutz. Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, 8.15 p.m.

Art award A Christchurch artist. Grant Banbury, has won the $6OO Ormond Estate Wines Art Award with his mixed-media work, “Figure on Grey Field.” The judge, Els Noordhof, of Wanganui, described the work as “most original in execution as well as in concept,” adding that it is “a poetic and self-contained work of art.” The Ormond Award is a privately-sponsored prize to cater for up-and-coming artists rather than established ones; it is now in its fifth year. attended by representatives of 23 affiliates. The emphasis was on marketing, financial management, and selling strategies for the present season. The federation also made a survey of audiences to provide information about its present audience, and to identity “target groups” for future marketing. The Music Federation is the chief vehicle in New Zealand, outside the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Radio New Zealand, for the promotion of serious music. Last year it arranged 205 concerts from Whangarei to Invercargill. Some 143 were given by New Zealand musicians and 62 by, overseas performers. About 250,000 people saw them. The annua! report shows what Mr Hilton terms “a pleasing surplus of income over expenditure” of $8877, although for the present year the federation predicts a deficit of about $13,500. This, Mr Hilton said, would occur mainly because of inflation and continuing fluctuations against the New Zealand dollar of the currencies of the overseas artists the federation engages. Violist dies The front rank of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has lost one of its leading members. Caro! McKenzie, subprincipal viola with the orchestra, died recently at the age of 45. Miss McKenzie joined the orchestra 25 years ago, when she was its youngest member. She was at times the principal viola with the Alex Lindsay String Orchestra and the Sinfonia of Wellington. He father played the clarinet and her mother the cello.

On the mend The Music Federation believes that television promotion has helped it to reverse a decline in subscription membership. In his annual report, posted to members this week, the president of the federation, Mr Arthur Hilton, attributes “a modest

over-all increase” i n subscriptions in 1979 to TV advertising early last year. The federation, had an arrangement with TVI for intensive coverage throughout January of last year. It arranged more television advertising this year, its festival year marking 30 years of promoting serious music.

Mr Hiltoh said that last year’s television promotion was given substantial local advertising and other support in each of the 41 cities and towns where music societies are members of the federation. The campaign included radio and newspaper advertising. In 1979, says the report.

the federation continued to concentrate on developing marketing strategies and holding regional meetings on the subject for all its affiliates which present concerts in the subscription sereis. Meetings were held in Wanganui, Napier, Hamilton, Wellington, Nelson, and Dunedin, and