LAW AND MUSIC
How Blind Singer
ICIIARD LILIENFELD, the blind South African baritone now a 8.8.C. star, became a singer as the result of a bad motor crash. He had mapped out a career for himself as a barrister, and travelled to England from Johannesburg to study law at Oxford. During his studies he met with a motor accident which blinded him, ''l was not going to allow the accident to defeat my object in life," he told the Sunday Express, London. "I started
Found His Voice
to learn JJraillo, and a friend read to me so that I could continue my studies, and eventually L was called to the Bar. "One day another friend heard me singing in my rooms. He told me I had a marvellous voire and urged me to consult a professor. I did so. The professor confirmed my friend s opinion, and in a week 1 had decided to forsake law for music. "1 studied under Plunket Greene and other masters, and then went back home, where 1 started my career as a singer in Capetown. Soon I was broadcasting in South Africa and had scores of concert engagements."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24009, 5 July 1941, Page 16
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194LAW AND MUSIC New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24009, 5 July 1941, Page 16
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