WELLINGTON PIANIST

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 16

WELLINGTON PIANIST

WINNER OF ACADEMY PRIZE

SEQUEL TO LINER'S DELAY

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London Representative.) LONDON, July 16. The delay in sailing for the Dominion of a New Zealand liner was a stroke of good fortune for 16-year-old Miss Cara Hall (Wellington). With her mother, Mrs. G. F. Hall, and the other passengers, she had embarked in the ship which was expecting to sail that day. All passengers were instructed to return to the shore for seven days, however, and during that time Miss Hall sat for, and won the Eric Brough Memorial Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. The composition which Miss Hall played to win the prize was the Fantasie and Fugue in G Minor, BachLiszt. While at the Royal Academy of Music, Miss Hall won two silver medals. The Associated Board considerably agreed to hold over »the remainder of her scholarship until conditions again become favourable for overseas students, the majority of whom have returned to their homes. Despite her youth, Miss Hall has given a number of recitals, and she has also played at a concert for the blind, arranged by Lady Arnott and Lady Glenconner. She broadcast on several occasions before she left New Zealand to study in London. Once, when she included a Bach prelude, a well-known Mus. Doc. was heard to exclaim, "Thank God, New Zealand is to have a'Bach player!" i

It should not be long before she is "on the air" again in the Dominion.