DUNEDIN AND MOZART

Evening Star, Issue 22067, 28 June 1935, Page 11

DUNEDIN AND MOZART

In addition to appreciation of music, everybody has learned to some degree a just appreciation of our local interpreters—the platers, singers, and conductors. Mr Alfred Walmsley, conductor of the Dunedin Choral Society, is. now generally acknowledged as a conductor of standing, and the society hag done much to broaden and intensify the popular appreciation, so that nowadays it is no longer “ high brow ” to listen to piusic which has a real reputation. The Dunedin public has certainly been appreciative of the society’s past efforts, and it is that unstinted support that has prompted Mr Walmsley to .organise a Mozart concert in the main Town Hall on Tuesday, July 2, at 8 p.m. The programme is one ,of the most ambitious yet attempted, and there is every reason to expect a very responsive audience. The players and the singers are such that, after the Mozart concert, the society should find more audiences asking for music than have asked for it before, and the quality of music in demand in Dunedin is of high standard.