AN INTERPRETER OF THE NORTH

Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 2

AN INTERPRETER OF THE NORTH

Two interesting redials will bo given bore on Saturday and Tuesday next at the Burns Ha.ll by Haagon Holonbergb, a distinguished Danish pianist, who is just now paying a short visit to Dunedin. Mr Plolcnbergli is known in three continents as one of tho foremost interpreters of the northern school of music, and was in his early youth greatly influenced through a personal acquaintance with Edward Grieg himi,elf. Ho does not, however, confine ihimsolf to tho -northern school exclusively, being also known as an exponent of Bacb, Beethoven, nud Chopin. His recitals here will lie given funder tho patronage of the Women's 'Club and the Society of Women Musicians of Otago. Mr I-loletivhergih,. it is said, has won laurels on many concert platforms in Europe and America, and more recently in Australia, where be lias been described by critics as “ an artist of the highest rank, with a strong personality, endowed with those rare gif us of sympathy that arc capable of .charming not only cultured nnusiolovcrs, biit also people who know, in Hie special son«e of knowledge, very Jitllo about music.'’