WILL SING IN LONDON.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 642, 21 December 1932, Page 6

WILL SING IN LONDON.

Miss Eunice Meredith to Return Abroad. NEW ZEALAND SOPRANO. After a holiday visit to New Zealand of about three months, Miss Eunice Meredith, the well-known soprano, will return to London after Christmas to complete a number of engagements She will sing at the Harmonic Society’s concert this evening, but will leave the cit}' to-morrow night for Wellington, the Waitomo Caves and Auckland, leaving by the Monowai for Sydney. Miss Meredith has several engagements in Sydney, but she has to return to London before February 19, and she will be busily engaged then until the end of the year. She will be soloist for Toe H, the Scottish Society, the London Federation of Brotherhood and a number of choral societies and churches. At Easter she will be soloist at a presentation of “ The Messiah.” Miss Meredith states that she has not found New Zealand much changed from when she first left it nine years ago. She has been splendidly treated wherever she went, and has had numerous invitations to sing for various organisations. It had been intended that she should join Mr Ronald Chamberlain in a number of recitals, but this arrangement unfortunately had had to be cancelled owing to the break-down of Mr Chamberlain’s health. Dunedin, her home city, had treated her very well, and she had been the guest at a pleasant farewell supper at which the Mayor and Mayoress, as well as many people prominently interested in music, had been present. She had sung there at the First Church and at St Paul’s. Of Dr V. E. Galway Miss Meredith spoke in high praise. In him, she said, Dunedin had a very fine musician. Miss Meredith would not commit herself to any comment on the progress of music in the Dominion. It was apparent that in this, as in other things, New Zealand was not very prosperous at the moment, she said. However, it was apparent, too, that people here l were coming to appreciate more the better type of music.