BESSIE DOYLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVI, Issue 2210, 19 May 1894, Page 2

BESSIE DOYLE.

Yesterday Miss Bessie Boyle and her concert company arrived from Palmerston .North, by train, and are staying at the Royal Oak Hotel. Two concerts are announced - to be given in Wellington, at the ' Opera House, the first on Monday night. Miss Bessie Doyle was born in New South Wales, about 20 miles from Maitland. At a very early age she developed a great aptitude for the violin, and her earliest lessons were taken from an artisan in her native village. So rapidly did she progress, that her mother, who is a musical enthusiast, decided to take her to Sydney, where she was placed tinder the tuition of Herr Eretschmann, and where she . made her . first public appearance at one of his pupils’ concerts When she was scarcely eight years of age, Remenyi was in Sydney, and from him she took a few lessens, and at his advice she was taken by her mother to the Leipsio Conservatoire. Her progress here was very satisfactory, and one year after her admission she won a big scholarship, a success quickly followed by her taking the great Mendelssohn scholarship, for which there were over six hundred competitors. In 1889 she made her first public appearance in Berlin, the leading musical papers being then unanimous in her praise. After this she went to London for a. concert tour, and wishing to become acquainted with the different schools of violin playing, she took lessons for 18 months from Cesar Thomson, the Norwegian violinist, at Liege, in Belgium. Returning to Germany, she continued her studies under the best masters, one of whom, Hans Sitt, was so pleased with her that he took her on tour. Two years ago she came back to her native land, and gave concerts with pronounced success. She went on a lengthened tour through India, Burmah and the Straits Settlements. Singularly in Java, the Butch-Javanese, who are not usually given to excitement, were worked up to a great pitch of enthusiasm, on more than one occasion paying for the whole programme being repeated at one sitting. The New Zealand tour, which was inaugurated in Auckland, it is estimated will occupy" another two months, when Bessie Doyle goes to the United States. Bessie Boyle is an indefatigable worker, and when time permits practises from five to seven hours a day. At Palmerston North on Thursday night, after the concert, which was attended by a crowded audience. Miss Boyle entertained at supper the Mayor and Mayoress of Palmerston (Mr and Mrs Park), the exMayo ress (Mrs Snelson), and Mrs Cohen and other well-known citizens.