THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21218, 14 September 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Hamilton Music Students An interesting programme of preludes and dedications has been arranged for the meeting of the Hamilton Music Students’ Association next Monday night. Hamilton Singer in Auckland In the Auckland Choral Society’s performance of “Judas Maccabaeus” tonight the tenor solos will be taken by Joseph T. Battersby, of Hamilton. Other soloists will be: Ada Lynn, soprano; Phyllis Gribbin, contralto; Stewart Harvey, baritone. Trevor Sparling will be at the organ. Colin Muston will conduct a full chorus and orchestra. £1250 From Menuhin Concert The Red Cross will benefit by £1250 as a result of a concert given in Melbourne by Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist, and the Philharmonic Orchestra. Girl “ Find ” at Sydney Eisteddfod Myree Parker, aged 13, of Granville, was a girl soprano “ find ” at Sydney Eisteddfod. Her ambition is to appear at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, or at Covent Garden, London, in Wagnerian opera. “ One day,” she says, “ I’ll repay the family for all they’ve done for me.” Adjudicators describe her voice as “ magnificent.” Dunedin Singer’s Success in London Donald Munro, baritone from Dunedin, who has been studying at the Royal College of Music for the past year, has won ail Open Scholarship, tenable for three years. He has been studying under Mr Topliss Green, who considers that the young New Zealander possesses

an excellent baritone voice and a fine power of interpretation; also that he has great capacity for work.