Pouishnoff and Horace Stevens

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7486, 9 June 1934, Page 4

Pouishnoff and Horace Stevens

REMARKABLE COMBINATION. In continuation of his policy of introducing to Now Zealand music-lovers none but tho world’s finest musical geniuses, Mr. Hugo Larson, tho distinguished impresario, announces the visit of Pouishnoff, “one of tho most brilliant pianists London has ever heard,” as tho London Daily Telegraph pronounces him, and Horace Stevens, the world-famous Australian bass-baritone. They come to Palmerston North, to the Opera House, next Saturday evening, giving one concert only. Pouishnoff is an artist whoso work is his story. His sensational success (and tho adjective is used only because it is true) came of his music and nothing else. His career has been tho logical development of an extraordinary gift, and he has made his name in Europe on sheer ability. In England and America he has established his name by a long chain of triumph. The scenes which followed his appearance in London can only be compared with those greeting Paderewski in his palmy days. Pouishnoff was the first European artist to give a performance at Teheran, whore ho was received at court and decorated by the Crown Prince of Persia. It is not generally known that Horace Stevens is the only artist whom Sir Henry Wood advised to give up his on-’ ginal career for that of singing. His first appearance at the Queen’s Hall, on September 25, 1919, with the new Queen’s Hall Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry Wood, England’s great conductor, immediately established him as one of tho most distinguished singers of tho present day. Horace Stevens made his debut at Covent Garden in 1927 at Wotan, when a packed house immediately realised that here was an artist cast in tho same titanic mould as those who first built up Wagnerian traditions. The appearance of the two artists on the one concert platform is unique. Tho box plans open next Tuesday at tho Central Booking Oflico.

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