MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1151, 2 May 1912, Page 18

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

G. String.)

Information has just come to hand regarding the exhibit'ons awarded by the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music in connection with the examinations held at the end cf last year. One of the exhibitions has been awarded to

Miss Dorothy Browning, L.A.8., and A.T.C.L., aged 16 years, who was a pupil of Mr. Charles Gray, Invercargill, and the others to M.ss Mary Frayer, of Dunedin, a pupil of Mr. Max Scherek, and Miss Wylie, of Bendigo, Australia. It is interesting to note that in competition with the whole of Australasia, two of the New Zealand candidates have carried off two of the three exhibitions, which entitles the holders to free musical tuition at the Royal Academy of Music, or the Royal College of. Music, for a period of not less than two years, and were awarded on the recommendation of the exam hers to the candidates showing exceptional musical promise. Miss Rosina Buckmatin, wlio sings in “The Golden Legend” at Auckland and “Cavalliera Rusticania” at Wellington, will probably leave for London or New York at the end of July. It is said she has rejected an engagement for comic opera in Australia.

The Matriculation examinations in connection with the higher diplomas in music of the Trinity College, London, have been abolished. .. Miss Eileen Boyd, who toured New Zealand several years ago as a child performer under the management of P. R. Dix, and who left Sydney some eighteen months ago to study singing in Paris, has been in London for the past five months. She sang with great success at the United Newspapers Sub. annual concert of February Bth, the critics praising her for the beautiful quality of her contralto vo ce and the artistic rendering of her songs. She also sang at a grand concert before a large audience at the Georgian Gallery at Warrings on February 22nd, at the annual dinner concert at the Hotel Cecil, and at a grand concert at the Steinway Hall in

aid of the Metropolitan Hospital. On February 25th she sang at the Palladium before an audience of over 4000 people, being re-called three times and having to respond to encores. She has engagements to fulfil up to the end of 1913, and the critics predict a great future for her. When Rubenstein’s opera “The Demon” was first produced in England, at Covent Garden, on June 21st, 1881, the leading parts were taken by- Madame Trebelli (mother of Madame Dolores) and Signors Marini and Edouard de Reszke. The opera is being revived, but not with so attractive a personnel. Madame Slapoffski was a passenger for London by the Anchises which sailed from Melbourne a few days ago. She intends returning to Australia in about a year’s time. Mr John M’Cormack, the Irish tenor, intends to make a comprehensive tour of Australasia about the middle of next year.