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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20610, 26 December 1936, Page 13

The many friends of Dr.S. Kenneth Phillips doubtless will join with the writer in congratulating him upon his being made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. That this is a distinction limited to a comparatively few may be gauged from the interesting fact that probably he is the only musician in New Zealand, or Australia, entitled to place the letters F.R.A.M. after his name. Credit for the recovery of Hugo Wolf’s posthumous songs is said to be largely due to Hans F. Redlich, conductor and composer, whose name does not appear on the publication. Dr Redllch’s researches have brought to light a good deal of early and fragmentary work by Wolf not mentioned in Decsey’s standard biography. This includes a piano suit, “Aus der Jugendzelt” (1877); more fragments hitherto apparently not examined, of Wolf’s second opera, “Manuel Venegas"; sketches for incidental music to Kleist’s “Prinz on Homburg”; the outline of a libretto by Wolf for a comic opera; and a hitherto unknown version—one of the very latest of Wolf’s writings—of a song, “Morgenstimmung,” for chorus and full orchestra, with the title "Morgenhymnus” Dr Redlich has also Identified what had hitherto been considered to be fragments as the complete finale of an early symphony in B flat. His view of the newly-published songs is that about a dozen would have been better withheld, but that 24 of them are master songs. Gordon Jacob, who has

visited New Zealand in the capacity of examiner for the Associated Board, has written for May Harrison a violin concerto which she played at a 8.8. C. concert in the course of the season. The work is in three movements, the last a Pureellian hornpipe.