DUNEDIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Evening Star, Issue 22363, 12 June 1936, Page 10

DUNEDIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

CHILD PIANO PRODIGY FEATURED A girl pianist, of only 14 years, but dowered with the musical sensibility, technical prowess, and imaginative gifts of the full-statured artist, is given the station of honour on the programme to be presented by the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra next AA’cdnesday evening. Bearing in mind the inflexibly high standard this body has maintained since its stimulating entry into the local musical field some three years ago, the honour accorded this young performer may bo assumed to be fully merited. Indeed, though this is AA’ynne Lorraine Simpson’s debut in-Dunedin, she has been known for seven years throughout New Zealand, wherever competitive festivals have been held, as a performer of infinite promise, taking in her stride all the competitive honours open to her, summa cum laude, and evoking from every successive adjudicator surprise and commendation for the sense of musicianship allied to her phenomenal technique. AA’ynne is a Christchurch girl, and it was in that city recently, with Liedevkranzschen Cociety, that she won sensational acclaim in her rendering of that extraordinarily difficult piece of virtuoso pianoforte music, Liszt’s ‘ No. 1 Pianoforte Concerto ’ (E fiat). It was a performance so unique by virtue both of technique and fine imagination, that so sober a critic as Air Alfred Worsley expressed the opinion that, with opportunity, the child had possibilities as a world artist in the future. An dit is this same concerto that AA'ynne will play with the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra. It is said that her performance of this vivid and richly-embellished work, in which difficulties pile up Pclion upon Ossa, will be a revelation to the orchestra's patrons. Two symphonic poems, widely differing in content and genre, will be the orchestra’s chief items. Particular in-

tercst centres upon that by the IrishFrench composer, Augusta Mary Holmes, entitled ‘ Andromeda and the Storm King,’ an exceedingly ornate and musically exciting version of the classic legend of Perseus and Andromeda, composed in the most florid French style, with the colours laid on with lavish hand. The popular Dunedin contralto. Miss Angela Hendry, is the vocalist of the occasion. As usual, the concert will be given in the Concert Chamber, Town Frail.