DAISY KENNEDY RECITALS.

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 8, 9 January 1920, Page 3

DAISY KENNEDY RECITALS.

Miss Daisy Kennedy, the young Australian violinist, will give the first of her four recitals in the Town Hall Concert Chamber to-morrow evening, when a programme of remarkable interest will be played. The programme includes varia-tions-on a theme, by Corelli (Tartini); Chanson Louis XIII et Pavane (Coupeiin); Praeludium and Allegro (Pugnani), arranged by Kreisler; Concerto in D Major (Tschaikowsky) (first movement), which Miss Kennedy performed with remarkable success with the Verbrugghen Orchestra in Sydney; Bourree in B major, Andante if O major, and Prelude in E major by Bach, for violin alone. A group of pieces by modem writers, include The Lark (Glinka-Bala-kireff), Russian Dance (Zirabalist), Berceuse (Tor Aulin), Dragonflies, and Valse Caprice, by Nandor Zsolt; and the well-known Introduction and Rondo Capricciosq, by Saint Saens. Miss Topsie Doenau will be the pianist. The remaining three .concerts of Miss Kennedy's season will take place on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday of next week. The box plans are at the Bristol.

Tho talented violinist paid a special visit to Trentham Camp yesterday for the purpose of entertaining the-large number of sick and wounded soldiers who are in hospital there. The entertainment was given in the Y.W.C.A. club-room, which was crowded. It was Miss Kennedy's first appearance in New Zealand, and she had no sooner commenced to play than the audience recognised that her reputation had not belied her, that sha is exactly what her agent represents her to be—among the foremost flight of the violinists of the world. Her programme included: —"La Precieuse," and early seventeenth pieces by Couperin, and arranged by Kreisler; Hebrew Song and Dance, by Zimbalist; Mendelssohn's "Gondola Boat Song"; "Tambourin," by Gosseo; Pugnam'-Kreisler's "Praeludium and Allegro"; Ethel Barn's "Swing Song"; Cesar Cui's "Orientale"; the Kreisler Waltz; Kreisler's arrangement of the Schubert "Moment Musicale," and an "Old French Hymn" (unaccompanied). ' All were played with wonderful technique and expression, and roused the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm. Miss Kennedy's performance was, indeed, a rare treat for the men, and they signified their appreciation at the conclusion by giving her three hearty cheers. Miss Kennedy, in reply, said she was glad to' makes her first appearance in New Zealand before such an audience.