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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol 7, No. 5 June 21, 1944

Paul Schramm and the Music Makers

Paul Schramm and the Music Makers

The audience, about 170 people, with unfaltering applause acclaimed Paul Schramm's concert at the College a brilliant success, fully verifying the artist's front rank position among New Zealand musicians.

Listeners are well prepared to enjoy Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. The second half of the programme, however, introduced many for the first time to works of modern composers. Enthusiasm reached its peak with the exhilarating, large-striding excitement of de Falla's "Ritual Fire Dance" and the Russian Prokofiev's "Marche Grotesque."

The newly-acquired piano, a generous provision of the Council, is better than any available for hire, but nevertheless a grand is urgently needed, especially for compositions of the magnitude of the Bach-Bussoni "Chaconne."

Financially the concert was not quite successful. The M.M.C. will arrange more concerts by leading artists at student prices. It needs your support and co-operation. Many thanks are due to many helpers.