SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1933, Page 7

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FIVE YEARS' ACHIEVEMENTS

The Wellington Symphony Orchestra gives its final concert of the current • season tonight, and incidentally completes five years of service. Its record of work done during that period covers a wide field of music, from symphony to overture, concerto to military' march. It might not be stuctly accuiate to say that the composeis wliobe voiks were selected, ior peitoimance xanged fiom Bach to Offenbach, but they did include Beethoven, Mo/ait, Handel, Elgin, Massenet, Delibes, and Sousa. As it lealising that taste in nnibic, a& m gastionomy, cannot be accounted ioi, the oichcstia has made such varied and generous provision as concert audiences in genc-rul can expect, accept, as^imilatp, and enjoy. The Aioiks ppitoiincd dining the 1929----33 (soasuiib include tnche symphonies (tltiee ot vlucli have been lepeated) by Bcetho\en, Biahms, Ces.n Fiank, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Tsehaikowsky; thirteen concertos for pianoforte, violin, 'cello, or organ, as the case might be: thirteen overtures, including .works in this form by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Elgar, -Grieg, Eimsky-Korsakott, and Meyerbeer, and some of them more than once. . . . . Distinguished visiting soloists who have assisted at the Symphony Orchestras concerts include Josef Szigeti, Andersen Tvrer John Brownlee, Raymond Lambert,* and Paul Vinogradotf, also, in choreographic concerts, Mr. Michael and Mrs. •^oSSS?^. received^a.naWe ing Wellington with orchestral. music during the past five years, and their work s cheerfully acknowledged by the executive council of the orchestra, which appeals for continued and larger public supP°Th'e concert this evening will open with the overture to "Kienzi." and will include Liszt's Concerto in A Major (No. 2) toi pianoforte and orchestra Mr Andersen Tvrer. London/being soloist, and the Arensky Concerto in F ~Mmor. : Mrs. Wilfred Andrews will sing two arias from "Samson et Delilah" (Saint-Saens). : ~