BOY VIOLINIST’S SUCCESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 216, 10 August 1940, Page 12

BOY VIOLINIST’S SUCCESS.

News has heen received from Mr Albert Sammons, in whose care Alan Loveday has been placed in England, that the young Palmerston North violinist is progressing with his studies. He had played the Mendelssohn concerto with municipal orchestra very successfully Mr Sammons hopes to work hard with his pupil for several years before he is ready to appear before a London audience. A music critic stated recently: “They call eleven-year-old Alan Loveday the ‘wonder’ boy violinist, and after hearing him play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the appreciation concert to Mr Herbert. Lodge, f am in - clined to think the description justified. An audience which practically filled the pavilion gave him a great reception at the end of the concerto. Unsmilingly he acknowledged the applause with boyish bows. I have no doubt that he appreciated it, but I am equally certain that what gave him greater pleasure was the pat on the back he received from Albert Sammons who had been conducting the orchestra. It was obvious that Sammons is proud of his protege—and lie has good reason to be.”