ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
LACK OF APPRECIATION
BRITISH PIANIST'S VIEWS
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day,
New Zealand is not orchestralminded, according to Mr, Andersen Tyrer, the distinguished British pianist and composer. There should be a more vivid realisation of cultural responsibility, whether in orchestral music or otherwise, he said, and city corporations and councils should give to orchestras the same financial and practical support they lend to art gaileries and museums.
A national orchestra in New Zealand would come in tinie. Such an orchestra, he said, would also provide a valuable central objective for students who would certainly work to be associated with. it.
Mr. Tyrers views are strongly supported by musical leaders in Dunedin, who are firmly of the opinion that there is excellent material here awaiting an expert hand to mould it into a great orchestra. It is felt it would be.well worth while to pay a very substantial salary to secure the services of some eminent conductor. The.marked and valuable stimulus that the presence of Dr. Malcolm Sargent exercised on music in Australia is quoted jn support of this: argument.
A national orchestra in New Zealand could be stationed in Wellington, with a regular series of tours through the other centres.' -••-.■' . . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 6
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207ORCHESTRAL MUSIC Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 6
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