CHILDREN’S CONCERT

Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 8

CHILDREN’S CONCERT

ORCHESTRA CAPTIVATES YOUTH , FAREWELL PERFORMANCE Undoubtedly the gateway to finer appreciation of music in Dunedin, and an unqualified success with local audiences, the National Orchestra of the New' Zealand Broadcasting Service presented a second afternoon concert to over 2,0(X) post-primary students in.the Town, Hall yesterday. Mr Anderson Tyrer, the conductor, has expressed l?is desire more than once, to supersede the entertainment;value of the symphony orchestra 1 with a primary function to create, a nursery for the education cf the youth of New Zealand to a gradual appreciation of the works of the master composers, and if. in yesterday’s audience the mass of futqre. concert-goers can be found, the future success of presentation of symphonic music, is assured. ■ The presence of the orchestra in the city had been a source of delight to all music lovers at concerts both in the evenings and the daytime, said the Mayor, Mr D. C. Cameron, before the orchestra opened its programme. The large audiences which had been privileged to attend the concerts had through their tumultous receptions indicated the high standard maintained by the musicians. . The visit : of the orchestra had been an event unparalleled(in Dunedin’s musical history, aiid, on behalf of the. city, the Mayor extended to the orchestra sincere appreciation and the best wishes for future success. . - “ From the orchestra’s point of view the Dunedin Town Hall is the. best in the Southern Hemisphere,”,, said Mr Tyrer, when he thanked the Mayor for the city’s warm-hearted, welcome. ! vlr Tyrer urged that promising musicians in the,city should further’their education and, he felt that among the audience there were many talented performers who would eventually join the orchestra’s ranks. Associated with the orchestra in its principal work of a. delightful programme was Raymond Windsor, a fitted pianist whose interpretation of lendelSsohn’s Concerto No. 1 in G Minor displayed tli'e technique of a mature artist. A youthful pianist, be attacked the music confidently, and altogether his •performance was exciting, but expertly controlled.; The orchestra provided a rich background to the 6010 part, arid the momentum of concerto was admirably maintained by both piano and orchestra, ' The Walk Through .the Orchestra ’ held the undivided attention of the youthful audience, and for the trill of the flute, the glissalido of the harp and the'roll of the timpani there was a burst of unbounded applause.. Nicolai’s bustling and. lively ’ ‘ Merry Wives of Windsor ’ overture' opened the programme and it was followed by the exciting,* Sorcerer’s Apprentice,’ by Dukas, ‘ Invitation To the Dance,’ a composition by Weber and Liszt’s popular Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,” which gave the orchestra full reign to demonstrate its balafice and richness’ completed an enjoyable' afternoon’s entertainment,'