MUSICAL EUROPE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1929, Page 11

MUSICAL EUROPE

A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS

Australian Press Association.

LONDON, 28th January. Bernard Hoinze has concluded a most interesting tour of the Continent, but expresses regret that ho was unable to visit Russia, where it takes two months to get a permit, because Russian art is progressing marvellously. Ho visited Brussels, Leipzig, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, and Paris, and declares that there is undoubtedly a magnificent musical' recovery throughout Europe. The Berlin Philharmonic is playing better than ever. He was prevented from conducting Warsaw's splendid orchestra owing to influenza, but was invited to do so next year. An amusing incident occurred when he was arrested on the boundary of Germany and Poland. Polish officials declared his passport not in order, but the production of the Melbourne Lord Mayor's letter effected an immediate release. Vienna gave the most thrills. There all musical doors were opened and the President of Austria gave him a reception. Mr. Heinze was also the guest of Strauss, who was most delighted and presented him with a handsome autographed volume and a facsimile manuscript of the score "Too und Verklarung.'' Vienna runs three senior permanent orchestras and several juniors, with a magnificent permanent opera. Mr. Heinze was invited to conduct there in 1930. He did not notice a musical revival in Britain, where things seemed at a standstill compared with the Continent. Vienna, with eight millions of people in the whole territory of Austria, sot the world an example of a musieally-eonfereneed Continental Conservatoriuin with directors whose methods were similar to Melbourne's. The visitor obtained new ideas regarding the most modern developments. "Undoubtedly," said Mr. Heinze, "my visit has -been advantageous to my work. I have heaps of new ideas. lam emphatic that it is desirable that Melbourne should establish a permanent orchestra."