MUSIC REVIVAL

Southland Times, Issue 21607, 20 January 1932, Page 6

MUSIC REVIVAL

CHANGES IN SYDNEY VIEWS OF MISS NELLIE BLACK VISIT TO RIVERTON (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, January 19. Well-known in musical circles throughout New Zealand, Miss Nellie Black (Mrs J. W. A. Prentice) who for the last five years has made her home in Sydney, arrived by the Ulimaroa to-day on a visit to the Dominion. With her is her mother who comes to New Zealand to participate in the seventieth anniversary celebrations of the Riverton District High School of which she is a former pupil. “Music is coming back. The people are getting tired of canned music,” Mrs Prentice remarked in an interview. “As far as Sydney is concerned,” she said, “the biggest musical movement at present, is the preparation being made for a grand opera season which is to coincide with the opening of the harbour bridge.” AU the best trained singers in Sydney were hard at work. Arrange?nents were being made for the selection of 12 Italian principals. A recent movement that had been successful in Sydney was the formation of a New Zealand Women’s Association. It started two years ago and now had a membership of nearly 200. The first president was Mrs Stanley Hampton, formerly of Wellington. Another prominent figure was Sister McDonald, formerly of Christchurch. “Ihe aim is to have our own clubroom so that New Zealanders who visit Sydney will feel they have somewhere to go.’’