FRANCISCO-BRITISH CONCERTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 November 1924, Page 13

FRANCISCO-BRITISH CONCERTS

A NEB' SOCIETY FORMED

An interesting attempt is to be made early in the autumn to carry out a scheme of co-operation between French and British composers, states the Daily Telegraph. It is felt that the creative artists of England and France know too little of each other’s work, that there are audiences in each country ready and more than willing to listen to the other country’s music. Distinguished musicians on both sides of the Channel have felt the great desirability of an interchange of performances, and that in the present sincere and active rapprochement between France and Great Britain there is now fresh encouragement for united action. A movement has already been made towards bringing the two nations into closer musical contact by the formation of a Franc-o-British Concert Society. Of the new society the founders include M.M. G. Faure (de I’lnstitut), H. Rabaud, Vincent d’lndy, J. Guy Ropartz, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Pierne, Paul Dukas, Florent Schmitt on the French side, and on the British, among others, Alessrs Arnold Bax, John Ireland ’Granville Bantock, York Bowen. Eugene Goossens, Josef Holbrooke. Thomas ,F. Dunhill, with Mr. Edgar Rueff and Mr. Louis Herye in charge of the administration.