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MUSIC

WORLD SYMPHONY



The final four concerts of the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra's 1996 World Symphony Series feature its principal conductor Sidney Harth on the podium with various local and overseas soloists.

The November 7 concert sees NPO Principal Flute Maria Swart and NPO flautist Evelien Hagen as soloists. Sidney Harth takes up the violin as well as the baton in a programme comprising Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in G, Mozart's Symphony No 39 in E flat and Schumann's Symphony No 4 in D minor.

PIANIST

Local pianist Jonathan Oshry plays Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor on November 14. The concert opens with Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture and ends with Bruckner's Symphony No 4 (Romantic).

Two soloists, Gerrit Bon (oboe) and Alex Slobodyanik (piano), feature in the third concert on November 21 which includes Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C, KV 314, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances.

HORN

The NPO's highly successful 1996 World Symphony Series will end on a high note with world-renowned horn player, Barry Tuckwell, featuring as soloist in Strauss's Horn Concerto No 2. The concerts take place on November 27 in the Pietermaritzburg City Hall and on November 28 at the Durban City Hall. Tuckwell is currently on his Farewell Tour as horn soloist and his performance in Durban will be one of his last concerts as a soloist as he intends concentrating on conducting from 1997.

Other works on the programme are Brahms's Academic Festival Overture and Berlioz's Symphonic Fantastique.

All concerts start at 19h30.



MONCEF GENOUD TRIO



Top jazz musician Moncef Genoud and his trio will give a performance on November 16 at 19h30 at the Alliance Fran‡aise, 22 Sutton Crescent.

Studying piano from 11 with Achille Scotti and Henri Chaix, Moncef Genoud grew to love jazz music. Inspired by names such as Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett he eventually became a self-taught jazz musician of international repute.

Moncef Genoud has played with numerous jazz bands and musicians like Bob Berg, Alvin Quinn, Robin Kenyata and Kenny Davis. He performed with Michel Petrucciani and Tete Montolio in 1993 and has toured throughout Europe, Australia, India, Madagascar, Western Africa, United States and Canada.

His present trio - made up of Frenchman Fr‚d‚rick Folmer on bass, Swiss Thierry Hochst„ter on drums and himself on piano - will be in South Africa for the first time, thanks to the Alliance Fran‡aise and Prohelvetia.

Tickets R25 (Alliance Fran‡aise members and students R20). To book phone Denise on 23-9582. Seating is limited. A cash bar will be available.



VIOLIN RECITAL



The Russian/American violinist, Nina Beilina, and pianist Lamar Crowson will give a recital for the Friends of Music at the Durban Jewish Club on November 9 at 19h45.

Their programme will comprise Bach's Sonata in G minor, Schumann's Kreisler Fantasy in C major, Bloch's Poeme Mystique and Suite in the Old Style.

A soloist with the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra last month, the Moscow-born violinist is no newcomer to Friends of Music audiences, having given a recital in the Durban Art Gallery a few years back.

LESSONS

She started violin lessons at the age of five and went on to study at the Moscow Conservatory and later in St Petersburg. Her teachers included Abraham Yampolsky and David Oistrakh. Winner of many top prizes, she toured Russia, Eastern Europe and South America while still resident in Russia.

On the death of her husband, conductor Israel Chudnovsky, she emigrated to America with her young son in 1976 and has since played with all the leading American symphony orchestras. She has also made recital tours there and in Italy.

CROWSON

Born in California, Lamar Crowson studied under Arthur Benjamin at the Royal College of Music in London. He joined the staff in 1954 and was appoin-ted senior lecturer in piano at the University of Cape Town in 1956.

During the 1950s he won many presti-gious awards. Highly regarded as a chamber musician, he has performed with the famed Melos Ensemble and given recitals with such renowned artists as Pierre Fournier, Izak Perlman, Ruggiero Ricci and Jacqueline du Pre.

Crowson is at present professor of music at Cape Town University.