THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22907, 15 June 1936, Page 10

THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

CHILD PIANIST FEATURED For the second performance of its current season on Wednesday night next, the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra sponsors the Dunedin debut of a youthful pianist whose early flowering talent has made her a conspicuous figure in musical circles in the Dominion. Only 14 years old, Wynne Lorraine Simpson is credited with the technique, poise, and personality of the fully-matured artist. Since she was seven years and a-half old she has annexed all the competitive scholarships and prizes ■within her reach, and the significant point of her victories has been the consensus of praise by adjudicators of her sense of musicianship—a rare thins; in the young performer. At 14 she makes nothing of the difficulties of the most intricate virtuoso music, and it is in one of the most sensationally difficult of such works that «he is to be heard with the orchestra on Wednesday—the more famous and certainly the more exacting of Liszt's Iwo pianoforte concertos, the E flat major one. It is a work the young performer played recently with the Christchureh Liederkranzsc'heu Society in such brilliant fashion a.s to win a genuine chorus of admiration from the initiate and the critics, a triumph that she will doubtless duplicate in Dunedin. which has been called the borne of pianoforte music. Alreadv a great deal of local interest baa been aroused in the child's debut, and a large and critical audience in assured. The other soloist will be the Dunedin contralto. Miss Angela Hendry, who will sing, among other items, Hatton's fine song " The Enchantress." Two symphonic poems, of strongly-contrasted type, both worthy of attention, will be the main task of M. do Rose and his accomplished orchestra. They are Smetana'g " Vltava." and Augusta Mary Holmes's excitinglydramatic "Andromeda and the Storm King." Two lesser items, but by no means mere make-weights, are the ballet music from Gounod's " Faust." and M. do Rose's picturesque overture " Maqueda."' The concert will take place in the Concert Chamber, Town Hall, at 8.15 p.m.