PIANOFORTE STUDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 182, 4 August 1931, Page 5

PIANOFORTE STUDY.

Miss Violet Rucroft. L.R.A.M.. president of the newly-formed Hamilton Music Students' Association. pave a lecture to members or the Auckland Piano Students' Association in the Lewis Early Buildings last niffht. "The music of H. V. Jervis Read," teacher of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under whom Miss Rucroft studied, was her subject. She said that in England his music was widely known and played, 'but it had not yet reached Xew Zealand. Quoting from a lecture recently given by the composer, she said, "'lt is the duty of a musician to be acquainted with the , music of his own day; to assimilate it, to disseminate it and spread it abroad, because in the words of Dr. George Dyson, 'the composer is the prophet and the performer his evangelist. , " Jervis Read has written a wealth 01 pianoforte music, mostly in miniature style; also songs and choral works and works for stringed instruments. Miss Rucroft played selections from his Sonnets," "Caprices," his first >; >book of preludes, "June," and ''Savoy.' ,