FRENCH GIRL VISITS AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 13

FRENCH GIRL VISITS AUCKLAND.

Praise for Town Hall Organ.

French visitors to New Zealand are always amazed by the iiumhci of girls here who work either for their living or for the love of a career. The general attitude for French women is to spend their lives devoted to their homes, but Mademoiselle Rence.Nizan, who arrived in Auckland this week, is definitely an exception to Petite, attractive and typically Frrfnch Mademoiselle Ni/.an is devoted to her career as an organist.

"Yes, but I love it," she said when interviewed this morning. "Since I was 14 I have played organ recitals, an<l when I was younger I loved the piano." Mademoiselle Nizan has just completed a third successful American tour and is considered to be one of the most genuinely talented performers ever heard in that country.

"The organ. Yes, I think I like it better than the piano. I like the piano very much, but the organ, you see, is better and difference. It has more, what I call 'resource.'- Every organ I play I find different and they are all beautiful." Yesterday Mademoiselle Xizan tried the organ in the Town Hall. "It has a wonderful tone," she said, "and I will love to play it. It is what I call a brilliant organ."

Mademoiselle Nizan's programmes include a selection of Bach, Cesar, Franck. Widor, Dnpre, Vierne, Daguin, Gigout and Saint Martin. Mademoiselle Nizan herself believes that her talent is hereditary. Her father was for mdny years organist of the Church of Xotre Dame de Boulougne, Paris, and her two brothers are also gifted in the playing of this instrument. Mademoiselle Nizan was a pupil of Dallier and of Louis Vierne. organist of Notre Dame, who at the time of his death was in the front rank of musical composers for the instrument.

Talking of her American tours Martemoisellp Nizan said that she had enjoyed them all immensely. "The people are so nice and friendly," she said, "but sometimes they talk too fast for me and I find their pronunciation funny."