GRAMOPHONE RECITAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 14

GRAMOPHONE RECITAL

following gramophone programme J5 11 ]» given at the Red Cross rooms on Monday : —United States Marine Band, Radetsky March (Strauss): Jose Mojica (tenor), Adios Triguene (Eduardo Vigil y. JvobleB); Middleton (baritone), Quan'ere ptwgio ("FalstafT-Verdi) and Beh vieni alia finestra ("Don Giovanni”—Mozart); Claudia, Muzio (soprano), 'Elle a ,fui ( a ales of- Hoffman”—Offenbach); American Symphony Orchestra, Introduction Act 3 ("Lohengrin"—Wagner)* American Symphony Orchestra, Bridal Chorus (~ Lohengrin"); Marie Tiffany (soprano), bolveig s Song (Grieg); Weyer A. Moor (flute), Andante ifi IT (Moliqtie); Karl Jorn (tenor) and Middleton (baritone), solo profugo ("Martha"—Flotow); Vasa Prihoda (violin), Dumka (Silk) j Vaßa Pnhoda (violin), Jota Bi Pablo (Satasate); Anna Case (soprano), Coming'Home (Willeby); Willem Willeke ('cello), Andante (Concerto No. 2, in D minor— Goltrmann); Beatrice Flint-Collin (contralto), Sfcng of the Chimes (Worrafi); Albert Spalding (violinh Minuet (Paderewski, arranged by Kreisler); Marie Kappold (soprano), Ave Maria (BachGounod); 'Obligato by Spalding; New York Light Opera Company, Anvil Chorus ("II Trovatore"—Verdi). Edison Laboratory model phonograph and Re-Crea-tion Records supplied by the Edison Company, 49, Lower Cuba street, Wellington.

A London musical critic recently offered 12 records for the best short description of ;a favourite record. ■ No fewer than eight wrote about Beethoven’s, “Fifth Symphony," in the Landon Ronald ( version, ana seven chose Schubert’s "Unfinished,” in various recordings. Four votes were oast for Beethoven’s tzar” Sonata, played, by Marjorie . Hayward and Una Bourne’. Favourite singers were Caruso, Chaliapin, Clara Butt, and Heckmann-Bottendorf. Tho prizewinning description referred to Chaliagin’s singing of the "Song of the Boataulers On the Volga": "There is that in this plaintive melody symbolic of the worker’s llfo. In , the • 'hey-a-heave-ho' one feels the cry of the workers through the ages—-the ory of those who tread the pathway of toil, 'the burden of the,world on their back.’ In that 'Volga Volga’ one feels all'their hope and dspair, and, as the cry dies faintly away, there comes the consolation that 'even the weariest river : winds , somewhere safe to sea.’ ”

* • * * According to an American paper, Mr Paul Whiteman’s Band, which was in London a couple of years ago, is now earning 7000 dollars for a week of seven days in a New York theatre. Roughly, this works out at ,£2OO a day. London, however, is not left behind, for an Am-, erican band is about to. arrive there which will bo paid Jil 250 for a week of six days by a new club. There arp about 20 performers, so that on the average each will get .£O2 a week. It is hard to be enthußiastio over. Virgilio Eazzari, whose deep-sea; yoiqe is heard in "La Cftlqnnia," frolot "The Barber of Seville.", His recording ip not aipong the, best of rthe sqng; but hls "II Lacerato Rpirito" is the best c/f the sonorous "Simon ‘ Boocanegra" nrimberd that the reviewer has heard, (a.. 0222, 12in d.s.) U\ For twenty-one years after rhe composition of Wagner’s "Paisifafl/’ whioh was first given in 1888, this orowning work of his lifetime was 'given stage representation only, at the Festrval Theatre the composer built himself /».t Baydeuth, For a long time, persons buyying the score of tho opera, had to sign, 4n agreement that it would not fbe staged in public elsewhere. ■ v * * */ * Not everybody knows Jthat tho "Wood? bird" song in. "Carmen"//and the Mexican national air, .“La Fnlnma,” are by the same composer, Sebasinan' Yradier,- '