SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT
An attractive programme is announced for the Wellington Symphony Orchestra’s concert in the Town Hall on Tuesday, March 10. The principal features will be the first presentation by the orchestra of Haydn’s “Military” symphony, one of the brightest and most popular of the groat master's works, and Saint-Saeus’s colourful fantastic for solo piano and orchestra, “Africa,” with Miss Valerie Corliss as solo pianist. Also included in the programme are Percy Grainger’s arrangement of a Danish folk-song, “Lord Peter's Stable Boy”; the over-popular' “Zampa” overture; Saint-Saene’s “Danse Macabre,” and Delibes’ most popular ballet suite, “Sylvia.” The seating plan will open at Begg’s, Manners Street, on Wednesday next. In view of the popular nature of the concert it is anticipated that the public will accord generous support to the orchestra, which Mr. Percy Grainger states is equal to any ho has hoard in cither Australia or New Zealand. Special concessions are being offered to schools and
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 133, 29 February 1936, Page 15
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157SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 133, 29 February 1936, Page 15
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