THE WORLD OF MUSIC.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19775, 4 January 1936, Page 16 (Supplement)

THE WORLD OF MUSIC.

| Hamilton Muslclcfti for England. j Miss Violet Rucroft, who has done ! so muoh to develop music in Hamilton, will for England next month. Miss .Rucroft hopes to undertake a ! ooure of study In church music at St. Nicholas College, Chislehurst, and to attend the Crystal Palace Festival In London. Splvakovsky-Kurtz Trio for Hamilton. Lovers of musio will welcome the announcement that the SplvakovskyKurtz trio —Tossy Spivakovsky (violinist), Jascha Spivakovsky (pianist.) and Edmund Kurtz (’cellist) —will give a series of concerts In the principal New Zealand towns, commencing at Wellington on January 20. It Is hoped that Hamilton will be Included In the Itinerary. These artists made a very successful oonoert tour of New Zealand in 1933, oreating a profound impression with the unanimity and verve qf their ensemble playing in addition to their brilliance as soloists. They have recently been attaohed to the Melbourne University Conservatorium of Musio, conducting the master classes in their respective spheres. The programmes to be presented will include tries tyy Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Ravel, and new solo items by each player. The tour is under the direction of Mr D. D. O’Connor. Hugo Larsen In London. Hugo Larsen, who brought us several outstanding musicians, including Peter Dawson and Horace Stevens (singers), Szigeti (violinist), and Pouishnoff (pianist), sends greetings from London. ■He has been presenting the New London Orchestra, under the conductorship of John Bickers, with Samuel Kutcher as prinolpal violin. Mr Larsen is now conducting a tour of the West Indies by Bruce Wendell (a West Indian pianist) and Ekaterina Zorina (dramatio soprano). Moiseiwltsch In London. There was a large audience for Benno Moisewltsqh’s piano recital at the Palladium, says a London critic. His playing has now far more character Ihan formerly, and If this has been developed at a slight cost, in the meticulous precision that was his main virtue, Ihe exchange .has not been unprofitable to his public. His programme included two sonatas Beethoven's “Farewell. Absence .and Return,'' and Chopin’s sonata with the Funereal March*