INDIAN SINGER IN CHRISTCHURCH
Miss Bina Acfdy, the Indian mezzocontralto who broadcast last night from 3YA, is the only woman of her race la the singing profession. Miss Addy wag born in Calcutta. She studied then until she went abroad. She studied in Rome under Mario Cotogni, in leiph| under Ebra Gerhardt, the fame—singer of lieder, and in London under Frederic King, who had a distinguished tutorial career at the Royal Academy of Music.
Miss Addy has sung in Rome, Berlin, and London. Several tizzies she has broadcast from London and Berlin. She sings Italian, German, Hebridean, negro spirituals, English and ballads, and Bengali songs of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore, Miss Addy said, was as much esteemed in Mia for his musical compositions as for his poems. She had noticed, however, that English-speaking peoples, who also knew Tagore as a poet, were not aware of his fame as a composer. Miss Addy hopes, when her contract with the Broadcasting Board is finished, to give public recitals
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21802, 6 June 1936, Page 21
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