MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 13

MUSIC.

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A Belgian Band for Australia; What will undoubtedly prove a most interesting and novel attraction is the Belgian Band which Messrs. J. and N. Tait have- secured -for a tour of Australia and New Zealand. Messrs. Tait's London representative heard this baud, consisting of twenty-eight performers, at a concert in London, and was greatly impressed by their playing, and immediately secured them for a. tour of this part of the world. The band, is comprised of first-class musicians who are refugees from Antwerp, Brussels, and Ostend, and they will be under the conductorship 'of Mr. Phillipe Meny,' who is well known in musical circles on the Continent and also' in London, aud the programme will include many popular items. In addition to the band, tho management have also secured the servioes of throo first-class artistis—Mr. Florent Hoogstoel, a solo ' violinist; Mdllo Viceroy, a brilliant Bolgiaii soprano, and M. Albert Goossens, of Brussels, who is a well-known operatio artist. The combination, which is already on its way to Australia, will commence their tour in Australia during the first week in June, and all tho principal oities of tho Commonwealth and Now Zealand will bo visited in duo course.

Sunday Concert. On Sunday evening the Wellington Professional Orchestra is to give its second concert of the season, when it is hoped that Mr. Bloy will have recovered sufficiently to resume the baton. No fault can be found" with the programme, which consists of really good popular music. The novelty will be the prelude to Giordano's Opera "Siberia," a work eleven years of age, and whose more recent works show promise of greatness. The prelude is really an interlude, being played prior to the rise of the curtain on the second act, and in its gloom foreshadowing the parting • between the condemned men and their wives and friends on the Siberian-Russian border. It is with pleasure that we note the inclusion of the overture to Mendelssohn's "Ruy Bias," a 6teady favourite with all orchestras and the public. The programme also includes a "Faust" fantasia, Schubert "Serenade," plaj'ed a? a cornet solo by Mr. AY. H. Bowman; the sparkling "Pique Dame" overture (A r on Suppe), and. for strings only, Boqcherini's "Minuet" and Mathe's 'Tizzicati."