Music and the Talkies

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17588, 2 October 1931, Page 10

Music and the Talkies

MR. Albert Cazabon, who went from ,Sydney to the Melbourne Capitol, has found the public of that.city ready to welcome good music. “Io find a picture theatre audience listening in close attention to 30 minutes of orchestral music, and then insisting upon the repetition of the last part of the ‘Canriccio Italian.' ” he observes, is exceedingly gratifying.” He conducted ■i Sunday concert at the Capitol not long after his arrival in Melbourne; and, as i result, the orchestra was soon afterward increased from 20 to nearly 50 players. A dmcert of 30 minutes is given as part of each afternoon and evening programme, and ,though the theatre, like the Prince Edward in Sydney, gives extended runs of its pictures, the musical programme is changed each week. “'I his policy,’* Mr. ' Cazabon states, “seems entirely successful, and wo had i packed house for our second programme last Saturday. It is excellent 16 find this recognition by 1 the public—•>s well as by the press;—of this effort to emphasise the attraction of music, and to increase the employment of musicians.” In Sydney’, also, the picture theatre orchestras find great fn v or. At the Prince Edward Theatre, Mr. Ted Henkel directs nerformanees of classic overtures which are warmly applauded, and in a recent programme at the Regent Theatre, Mr. Stan Porter -made an attractive feature of a well-balanced interpretation of Weber’s “Freischutz” overture.