A NEW ZEALAND COMPOSER
An interesting address was ; given "at the monthly meeting of the music section of the Auckland League of Penwomen by Miss Gertrude Bertram, Mus. Bac, on the New Zealand composer, Alfred Hill. Mr. Hill, she said, had a brilliant student's career'for five years in Leipsiz, Jjut his being in New Zealand 'during the impressionable years of his youth, and possessing'the intuitive sympathy to interpret the poetry of the Maoris, had given us the wealth of music characteristic of their race, flulminating in the. cantata "Hiuernoa." There was no art without originality, and no originality without personality, and Mr. Hill's works were greatly influenced by close contact with the vivid personality of the artist, Mr. Charles Goldie. While studying Maori life in Rotorua his work matured, and as a result we have the opera "TapuJ" which pulsates with dramatic interest. The composer, said Miss 'Bertram,-was convinced that the Maoris came from India, his thorough research proving that they freely used the small intervalspeculiar to the music of that country. The composer's niece was.present at the meeting, and gave the audience some personal touches. .-'..,
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 128, 4 June 1929, Page 15
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186A NEW ZEALAND COMPOSER Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 128, 4 June 1929, Page 15
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