A BROADCAST CONDUCTOR?

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1933, Page 19

A BROADCAST CONDUCTOR?

A suggestion that the experience and musicianship of Mr. Alfred Hill, the Wellington-educated ''■ boy, who has achieved a foremost place among Australian composers and conductors, should be turned to good use in broadI casting is made' in the "Wireless Weekly" by Dr. Keith Barry, who visited Melbourne recently as an A.B.C. adjudicator. - Describing Mr. Hill as "probably the most interesting musician in Australia/ Dr. Barry suggests that as the visit of Dr. Malcolm Sargent is "off" for a while, it might be a good idea to look round Australia for "a conductor' or two with (ons says it quite unafraid) greater exporience and no less imposing credentials." Without endeavouring to acclaim. Mr. Hill as a Toseanini, Dr. i Barry points out that Australia has in him a conductor who has played under 1 Brahms, Tscfcaikowsky, Grieg, Goldmark and many others, and. whose wealth of orchestral experience is larger than mostr -He alao ■tresiaa Mr. Hill's accomplishment and fame as a composer of anything from a string quartet to a > popular song, and that he can conduct better than most other conductors. The Australian Broadcasting Commission, sa-y« Dr. .Barry, would gain by inviting Mr. Hill to conduct oftener than has been done in the past. "It seoms ~e'{Mr»us/? ke writes, "Wat with Jhej

various orchestras \re liave in. this country and which tho Commission has at its disposal there is none available for Australia's best-known composer, except on very odd occasions. Couldnt something bo done about it?"