PIANIST AND COMPOSER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19835, 26 June 1934, Page 12

PIANIST AND COMPOSER

Mrs Alfred Hill, pianist and composer (wife of Mr Alfred Hill, well-known composer and conductor), who has taken a year’s leave from her duties at the Conservatorium to devote more time to musical composition, is in Sydney again for a few weeks. Mrs Hill has composed music since early girlhood. Mr Laurence Godfrey Smith, with whom Mrs Hill, then Miss Mirrie Solomon, was studying the piano, was the first, to take an interest in her compositions, and he was the pianist when the Verbrugghen Orchestra performed her Quartet for piano and strings at a musical Association function, and the same work was played by the SjTdney Quartet, with Mrs Hill as pianist, at one of their recitals. “When I have finished a Suite for full orchestra, based on Galsworthy’s play, ‘The Little Dream,’ and a children’s Cinderella Suite for string orchestra,” states Mrs Hill, “I want to write a children’s cantata —if only someone will send me some words for it!”

Over 10,000 children from the elementary and secondary schools of Britain will go abroad in the coming summer for educational holiday trips arranged by the British School Journey Association.