Vic Organists Performed

One of the high points of Arts Festival Classical Music was a concert of Sacred and Solemn Music held in the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. The programme was taken up almost entirely by the Victoria University Choir, who performed two works. Schubert's Mass in G Major and Handel's Cantata Dixit Dominus. They were accompanied by a string orchestra of Victoria and Canterbury players, and conducted by Anthony Jennings.

Organists from Victoria also performed during the concert: Allen James played Organ Prelude in F Minor and Organ Fugue in C Minor by J. S. Bach. Anthony Jennings played Come thou creating spirit by Schroeder, and Roy Tankersly played the Great prelude and Fugue in G Major by J. S. Bach.

Other items on the programme were a Solo Cantata Unschuld Kelenod Reiner Seelen by Bach, for soprano, flute, oboe, and viola, performed by students of Otago University, and a Mass for Three Voices, by D. Q. Buchanan of Canterbury University, sung by students of the university.

Four lunchtime concerts were held in the University Hall. Items were provided by an Otago group. but Victoria was featured in a Violin Sonatina by Lennox Berkely, played by Peter Walls, and in Lilburn's Sings Harry and Lyall Cresswell's A. A. Milne song cycles, both sung by Michael Jones, baritone, of Victoria. Two Victoria pianists also performed, Ian Frazer playing Liszt's Three Petrarchen Sonnets, and Thomas Gatti playing Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythms by Bela Bartok.

The Victoria University Madrigal Group performed at an evening concert of Music for Voices and Recorders on the Wednesday.