DOMINION VISIT
BOYD NEEL STRING ORCHESTRA
MAY INAUGURATE SERIES OF EMPIRE TOURS
(N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.)
LONDON, November 4.
“ We hope to spend six weeks in New Zealand, visiting as many centres as possibles,” said Mr D. D. O’Connor, of Auckland, referring to the visit, to the Dominion next July, of the Boyd Neel, String Orchestra. “We shall be bringing 20 players. Dr Boyd Neel will be the conductor and Mr Frederick Crinkle, the well-known violinist, will be the leader.” After playing in Australia and New Zealand, the orchestra will go to Canada. “It is hoped,” said Mr O’Connor, “ that this wilt be only the first of a series of Empire tours, arranged in conjunction with the British council.” [Dr Louis Boyd Neel, the founder and conductor of the Boyd Neel String Orchestra, is also the conductor of the Sadlers Wells Opera Company, and musical director of the Decca* Record Company. Although he was originally intended for the Navy, he took up a medical career on leaving Dartmouth, and qualified as a doctor in 1930. Three years later he founded the Boyd Neel Orchestra, and its success caused him -to foresake medicine for music. ! He lias conducted the orchestra all over Europe, and has also conducted most of the other famous English orchestras].
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Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 10
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