LASZLO SCHWARTZ.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 5

LASZLO SCHWARTZ.

Laßzlo Schwartz will make his first bow to a Wellington audience to-mor-row evening at the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall. The Hungarian artist contends that no one can do full justice to the quaint melodies of his native land unless he knows the language and the fashion in which the peasant class live. Hungarian music is full of melody and spirit, contends Mr. Schwartz. It is not that foreign musicians cannot understand the "musical value" of Hungarian" music, he says, but because of their lack of information of the Magyar psychology, and for this reason they are unable to take those liberties without which Hungarian music in its interpretation loses its chief charm and power. In his prologue on the "Poetry and Power of Hungarian Music" he illustrates this by explaining the songs and dances and then playing them in their simple form, and without th& fringes and. decorations which so often destroy its poetry and simplicity. New* Zealand's well-known dramatic soprano, Miss Etta Field, will assist with the programme, and the accompaniments will be played by Mies Evelyn Hardy. The box plan is at The Bristol,