Cavdarski returns with C.S.O.

Press, 21 October 1987, Page 23

Cavdarski returns with C.S.O.

Vanco Cavdarski is the conductor for the second Christchurch Symphony Orchestra concert in its Wang series. Cavdarski, who began the series last month, will lead the orchestra in a programme on Saturday evening at the Christ-

church Town Hall. There are a number of items on the programme, which features Lynne Cahtlon. One is “Harbour Nocturne,” a composition by the New Zealand composer, Larry Pruden, written during 1955-56 while

Pruden was living in the Wellington suburb of Brooklyn and could see from his home the changing moods of the harbqur and the hills beyond. After Larry Pruden’s death five years ago his ashes were scattered on the surface of Wellington

Harbour, to the accompaniment of a recording of “Harbour Nocturne” made 20 years earlier by the Alex Lindsay String Orchestra. Another significant feature of the programme is a selection of "Songs of the Auvergne,” to be sung

with the orchestra by the Auckland soprano, Lynne . Cantion. The twentieth century French composer, Joseph Canteloube, has collected and arranged 27 folk songs of the area, spanning a range of moods from cynical to tender. From this collec-

tion Lynne Cantion will sing eight in the original dialect of the region. The major work in the concert will be the Symphony No. 6 by Dvorak, composed in 1880 as a commission from a great conductor of the day, Hans Richter, who, at that time, directed the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. It was this symphony which gave Dvorak his first major success outside his native Bohemia.

The concert will begin at 8 p.m.