MUSICAL DISCOVERY
SYDNEY BASS SINGER’S FUTURE. - WHAT MELBA THINKS. Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. SYDNEY, May 31. Dame Melba gave audience to a local bass singer, Alfred Behham, who the considers will become world renowned if he is trained in Europe. The “Herald,” commenting on the statement, says that Melba’s find is a surprise to musical cormcispeors, who were aware of Mr Benham’s fine voice, but wero always dissatisfied with the roughness of his production. Melba contends that European studies would result in giving him the necessary polish for entry into, opera. Air Benham i 3 an employee in the electric light department of the City Council, and figured on the Sydney concert plat, forms and in the Philharmonic Society for several years.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11224, 1 June 1922, Page 6
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121MUSICAL DISCOVERY New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11224, 1 June 1922, Page 6
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