Elsie Hall, a remarkable South African pianist, was soloist at the Bulawayo Music Club’s monthly meeting last night.
Youngsters impress at concert
The Rhodesian Academy of Music’s monthly lunch-hour concert at Bulawayo City Hall yesterday featured pupils who gained first-class awards in the recent Eisteddfod.
Soloists praised
Seven proficient young soloists playing last night with the Bulawayo Municipal Orchestra under conductor Hugh Fenn engendered ample confidence in Bulawayo’s musical future.
Mindru Katz plays with intensity
Israeli pianist Mindru Katz’s total involvement in the music he is playing makes his performance (City Hall, Bulawayo, last night) often as urgent and intense as the act of composition must have been.
Eloquent plea by musicians
The standard of Bulawayo Municipal Orchestra’s playing under Hugh Fenn at the City Hall last night provided a further eloquent plea for the orchestra’s survival.
Exhibition has a higher quality
The work shown at the current exhibition of the Bulawayo Art Club sustains a higher general level of quality than in most previous years.
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Keeping arts alive is an uphill task
Viewpoint by Marshall Baron, of Bulawayo, The Chronicle
Curtailment of the arts affects quality of life
Viewpoint by Marshall Baron, of Bulawayo, The Chronicle
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Soprano has mark of real artist
Every significant artist since time began has something of the anarchist. Imitation of what others have already said is only craft. Art is the single-minded crystallization of a wholly personal vision, answerably only to its own sense of relevance. This is true equally of the executant as the creator.
Brilliance on the oboe
The oboe is one of the most obdurately difficult of the wind family to master. At 30, the Swiss player Heinz Holliger, who played in Bulawayo last night accompanied by Edith Picht-Axenfeld, is without doubt already a virtuoso of the first rank.