NEW ZEALAND VIOLINIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 12

NEW ZEALAND VIOLINIST.

TOUR AMONG WORKERS.

Miss Cecilia Keating of (Greynaouth) has returned from a tour of South Wales, where *he played violin solos to munition and factory workers. The tour wns sponsored by the Council for the Encouragement of Music and Art. It wnS tlie lirnt time that anyone has attempted to give a programme of serious music to munition workers. Miss Keatinjr's next tour will l>e to the Midlands.

Recently she srave a violin recital in the home of Mrs. David Walker, whose "muaicals" every week in Kensington draw music-lovers from all parte of London. She has played at two important Royal Ail 1 Force «tationa recently, and also taken part in some big troop concerts in T»ndon.

Miss Keatin? left Oreymouth five yeans ajro to take up a violin scholarship at the Royal College of Music. Her prof east* is * Albert Sammons. the famous violinwt. Her lister. Miss Clare Keating, who is -becoming well known as a yonng singer of great promise, gained an exhibition during her first year at the Royal College of Music, She studies with Mr. Onthbert Smith, and in ringing at troop concerts.