CONCERT PIANOS IN NEW ZEALAND
QUALITY SAID TO BE POOR (New Zealand Press Association) „ . AUCKLAND, June 18. Concert pianos in New Zealand are so poor that they are frightening away many overseas artists who would love to come, according to Richard Farrell, internationally known New Zealand pianist, who is visiting Auckland. He is concerned that world-renowned pianists have stopped coming to New Zealand. Twenty years ago many came, he said, but now the country depended on the homesickness of its artists. Mr Farrell is the first prominent, solo pianist to perform in Auckland since the New Zealander Colin Horsley revisited the country a year ago. “I would like to take the Auckland University College piano through New Zealand with me,” he said. "It is a wonderful instrument. The last time I was in Wellington I used a piano that Paderewski left lying around in 1901 or thereabouts. It wasn’t bad, and I’ll see if I can find it again.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26451, 19 June 1951, Page 9
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