(Section D)
Led by LAURANCE TURNER
Conducted by HILDEMARO KONOYE
Viscount Konoye , the second son of Prince Konoye, whose family belongs to one of the oldest peerages in Japan, was born in 1898 at Tokyo. After graduating in -the Peers College and the Tokyo Imperial University, he went to Berlin in 1921 and studied composition privately with Professor George Schu mann and Franz Schreker and conducting with Erich KVeiber. He established the Tokyo New Symphony Orchestra in 1925 and has ever since directed it as the permanent conductor. The New Symphony Orchestra is the only permanent orchestra in Tokyo to give monthly subscription concerts. Viscount Konoye was invited by the Society, of Foreign Relations to the U.S.S.R. and conducted symphony concerts in Leningrad and Moscow in 1930. Later, he visited other European countries with great success.
Viscount Konoye has composed a Coronation Cantata (1928) and a Symphony in C major after Schubert's String Quintet, Opus 163, besides various smaller compositions. He was elected as a member of the House of Peers in 1932. His ]ast appearance in the studio here was in November, 1933, when his programme included a piece of his own.