DUNEDIN MUSIC WEEK
CENTENNIAL PROGRAMME The following programme for the Centennial Music Week has been arranged in Dunedin:— Saturday, June B.—Presentation of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.” Sunday, June 9.—lnterdenominational church service in the Town Hall. Monday, June 10, and Wednesday, June 12. Stage production of “Faust.’ Tuesday, June 11.—Festival arranged by the British Drama League. Thursday, June 13.—Celebrity con-
cert in which all of the visiting artists will take part. Friday, June 14.—Programme provided by school choirs. Saturday, June 15.—Festival concert for which the programme has been drafted as follows: “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” Professor Galway; “Blest Pair of Sirens” (Parry); a group of songs by Heddle Nash; Alto Rhapsody (Brahms), in which Gladys Ripley will be the soloist; a piano concerto, Mr Anderson Tyrer; “News from Whydah” (Balfour Gardiner); and, for the second half, Vaughan Williams’s “Benedicti” and the same composer’s “Sea Symphony.” The visiting artists will include Anderson Tyrer, conductor of the Centennial Choir; Isobel Baillie, soprano; Gladys Ripley, contralto; Heddle Nash, tenor; Oscar Natschke, the New Zealand bass who has done so well in England; Raymond Beatty, also a bass; and several instrumentalists.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)
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