LEAGUE OF PENWOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 11

LEAGUE OF PENWOMEN.

"The Life and Letters of Peter Tschaikowskv" vras the subject of an interesting " address given by Mr? Herbert Bloy "on Tuesday to member? ot the Lea'me of New Zealand Pen women. Peter Tsehaikowsky ranked a≤ one of the greatest masters of the Russian School of Music, and the lecturer gave a vivid account of hi? triumph over adverse conditions. His aspirations were almost crushed by unsympathetic parents and teachers, but under the influence of the magnetic personality of Rubenstein, Ms genius developed, and at last he gained his well-merited success. Extracts from his letters read by Mrs. Blov proved him to be modest and unassuming in' character and extremely self' critical, but, by setting a high standard for himself, he achieved a permanent expression of mind and intelligence. The originality of his highlyenltured mind won him the regard of the most enlightened people of his day. The lecturer enumerated Ms most important compositions, most of wMch are pervaded by the haunting melancholy peculiar to "the Slav temperament. At the conclusion of the address the excerpts from TachaikowskVa compositions were rendered by Miss Leela Bloy, Mrs. H. K. Hesketh and Mrs. Herbert Bloy.