EXPERT OPINION
Wellington Musical Talent
Few of those present were aware that La Meri, her impressario, Signor Guido Carreras, and all the members of their company were present at the complimentary concert to Paul Vinogradoff at Wellington on Tuesday eveping. Some pride and no little gratification resulted from an expression of opinion on the performance by Signor Carreras, who is an intimate friend of Toscanini’s and has managed many of the greatest musical stars in the world, including Kreisler, Busoni and SaintSaens.
“I was surprised,” he said. “Your conductor wields a firm baton—it has a lot to say. It only goes as far as he wants it to go—and he was dealing with a pianist who was not easy to direct. The first violins had good tone, and two—yes, I think, two —of the brass players knew how to blow. “I was interested because of the Glazounov concerto, as my sister, Maria Carreras, was the first pianist to play it in Berlin. It is a snperb work, and I was surprised and pleased to hear it plpyed so well here. “I thought Mr. Vlnogradoff played the Greig concerto, not a very difficult one, very well, but he was at his best in the Scriabin “Poeme.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 254, 23 July 1936, Page 13
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