THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 17 (Supplement)

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Hamilton Music Students The annual meeting of the Hamilton Music Students' Association will be held in the Centreway rooms on Monday night. A full attendance of members and intending members is hoped for. Richard Tauber Banned Richard Tauber, the famous tenor, Bruno Walther, noted composer and conductor and Max Reinhardt, great producer and stage manager, are world-famous artists whom Vienna will know no more. They are among the victims of what the Nazi newspapers call the’ “ great spring-cleaning ’’ or the wholesale dismissal of Jews. Theatres and music halls have been completely “ cleansed/’ says the Vienna correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph. Hamiltonian “ Over the Air ” Kenneth Sandford, of Hamilton, broadcast from IYA, Auckland, recently, and was so successful that he has been asked to sing again. The Welntraubs for Hamilton The Weintraubs, comedy harmonists, who have been so successful elsewhere. will appear at the Theatre Royal on April 7. They combine music and comedy in very entertaining fashion. Popular Violinist in Auokland Isobel Langlands (Mrs E. R. Greenfield), formerly of Hamilton, is kept , busy musically in Auckland. The Berk- 1 ley Trio, of which she is the violinist, is to give a ” Carmen ” programme and Brahms over the air on April 9, and later Miss Langlands will do the Golden Sonata of Purcell with Ina Bos worth and others (two violins, ’cello and piano). The next Chamber Music concert will be given by Miss Langlands, Marjorie Gully (pianist) and Trevor de Clive Lowe (’cellist). They will do a Swedish trio by Gustav ilagg and the Desert Trio by Saint Saens. Miss Langlands is secretary of the recently-formed Auckland Entertaineis’ Club, of which Colin Muston is president. .The aim of the association i> to prevent the exploitation of entertainers’ who in the past have been expected to perform almost everywhere

for nothing. In future, except in the cr.se of legitimate charities like hospitals. etc., they will have to be paid. This is a long-overdue move. Backhaus Forbidden to Play After Wilhelm Backhaus. the pianist. had been forbidden by the German Chamber of Music to play at a concert at Antwerp organised by the Flemish Philharmonic Society under .. Jewish conductor named Loewenstein. another conductor was substituted. Backhaus lias given concerts in Hamilton in his tours through New Zealand.?,,