THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 18986, 1 July 1933, Page 17 (Supplement)

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Boy Pianist Draws Huge Crowds. At the 17 concerts so far given in Australia by Philip Hargrave, the 10-year-ohl pianist, lire attendance totalled 49,000. lie was announced to give six concerts in Sydney, hut two extra ones had to be given. Each attracted a capacity audience, and there were scenes of tremendous enthusiasm. The wonder boy had the assistance of John Dudley, tenor, with Frank Hutchens (the New Zealand pianist) as accompanist. At the sixth recital the programme included two Preludes and Fugues from Bach’s Forty-eight, the Rondo from Beethoven’s Sonata, opus 2, No. 3 in C major, Chopin’s sharp minor Fantasle Impromptu, and Schubert's Impromptu in B flat. There were persistent demands for double encores, and among these the boy included Henselt’s “Si Olseau j’Etais" and Liszt’s Transcription of Paganini's E flat Etude, Schumann Discoveries? Car] Geiringer, Haydn’s biographer, lias discovered in ihe archives of a Vienna music society’a manuscript containing eight polonaises by Schumann. The composer’s daughter has Identified her father’s handwriting. Several Schumann biographers have mentioned this manuscript-, hut the Schumann-Brahms Circle objected to il being included among Schumann’s other works. Geiringer has disregarded this objection and has published tire eight pieces. Opera Singers to Tour. A great, operatic tour is going to take place in Italy. The organisers are Chaliapin, the world-renowned Russian bass, and Toll dal Monte, tlie famous Italian soprano. Tire first opera will be ” The Barber of Seville.” Toti dal Monte and Feodor Chaliapin toured New Zealand some years ago. IWuslo Festival at Palmerston. At Palmerston North on Tuesday the Palmerston North City Choir, assisted by an orchestra of 20, will render Haydn’s “ The Creation.” The soloists xvill he: —Myra Sawyer, soprano; Edwin Dennis, tenor; Ernest Short, bass. Choir of 4000. Amassed choir of 4000 and a congregation ot more than 10,000 will lake part in the choral service at Ihc Crystal Palace, London, on July 21. The service will be a Festival of English Church Music, in which choirs not only from all parts of England, Scotland, and Wales, but from Ihc cathedrals of Capetown and Singapore, and from ihc English clmreltes al Mill Remo ami Uporlo, are to take pari. musical IWomonts. Tossy Spivakovsky (violinist), Jascha Spivakovsky (pianist) and Edward Kurlz t'eellist), whose recital in Hamilton last week is a pleasant memory, left New Zealand for Sydney yesterday. They hope to come back sumo day.

.Mr T. Vernon (;ril’lllhs lias been appointed conductor of the Dunedin orchestral Society, in place of Mr A. Waluasley, who resigned.