SINGER'S RETURN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 95, 24 April 1939, Page 11

SINGER'S RETURN

AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE

After three years spent in Australia^} during which. time he has done corisioV.! erable work . under, the Australian ? Broadcasting- ■ Commission and" ha_F| gained a great deal of valuable exgerii; ence, Mr; Ray Trewern, . thewell« known Wellington tenor, arrived toda^j by the Awatea/ He. has returned' "to 1 Wellington foi:'a, four .weeks' entgagg*i ment under the National Broadcast!^ Service, after which he will: go to' England, where he will endeavour to mak£j his way in grand opera work. " i:o Mr. Trewern won' the Wellington*:) Competitions Society's grand opera j scholarship in. 1936, and this entitled! him to a return fare and expenses :.to| enable him to compete in-the "Sun*, aria contest at Melbourne. Since tak*| ing up singing as his Career.in Axis*tralia, Mr. Trewern, in aadltion. t»-J working~for the Australian Broadcast--, ing Commission, appeared for -tb&i Hoyt's Theatre management, and with] Miss Jean Love, an Australian sopra&bv, he took part in an interesting tour* oi=, country . towns; in Victoria

Mr. Trewern said that in Australian the experience he had gained waslve*igrJ useful. At the Melbourne Town; Haiti he?-sarig the tenor solos in Bach's .©.j Minor "Mass," which was presented by the' Australian Broadcasting Com£* mission iri conjunction with the Mcl".1 bourne Philharmonic Society. ~ i"