ALAN LOVEDAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 4

ALAN LOVEDAY

“PLAYER OF GREAT ATTAINMENTS “ At the end-of-term concert of the Royal College of Music, in London, the young New Zealand violinist, Alan Loveday, played with the First Orchestra of the college Tschaikowsky’s violin concerto. The Times notice of the concert, on December 8, described him as “ a player of great attainments and greater promise.” “ Tschaikowsky’s concerto,” says The Times, “ was composed on the early side of the critical division in his output; it is not perhaps a very good work, but it is free from those emotional qualities which tempt performers to serve up Tschaikowsky’s chief symphonic compositions either with golden syrup or with mud and blood. Students are not likely to fall into either of these turgid styles, and a boy of Mr Alan Loveday’s age is more likely to make too little than too much of the emotional lyricism of the canzonetta movement. It was therefore a pleasure to hear from soloist and orchestra alike a very clean, rather crisply phrased performance. Mr Loveday appeared to be unaware that there are any technical difficulties in violin playing; his left hand moves confidently above the snow-line of high harmonies; his tone, like his intonation, is pure, and leaves room for a little more personality and colour in the natural course of His development. He is a player of great attainments and greater promise.” The orchestra was conducted by Mr Basil Cameron.