SONG RECITAL.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 7

SONG RECITAL.

Miss Kathleen Cruickshank, who is giving, her first song recital in New Zealand at the Concert Chamber on. Wednesday evening next, has. been studying in England and the Continent for the past seven years. In London she had lessons in voice production from Mr. Frederick 1 King (senior professor at the Royal Academy of Music) and Madame Esta D'Argo, and her masters for interpretation were the late M. Micha-Leon (the famous Danish tenor) and Mr. Plunkett Greene. She also studied in Rome under Sig'nor Cacehein, the musical coach to Madame Tetrazzini, and Miss Ilosina Buckman: She gave three very successful recitals in London, and the critics spoke most highly of her work, alluding to her. as a singer of charming personality, and an exqtiisiteness about her work which makes one want to listen to every word. Miss Cruickshank had engagements with the 8.8.C., and has broadcasted from London and Birmingham, and was also the vocalist at concerts given under the auspices of the London Musical Societies, her fellow artists being Arnold- Trowell ('cellist) and M. Pushnioff (pianist). The programme will include groups of songs for children and these will be sung -in costume. The box plan is now open at The Bristol.