MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1377, 14 September 1916, Page 34

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

Mr. Arthur Hinton, examiner for New Zealand under t’he auspices of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Mus’.c, London, arrived in Auckland last week., He is accompanied by his wife, who is professionally known as Madame Kath-

erine Goodson, the famous pianist. She will not appear in public on her present trip Director Gheusi, of the Paris Comique, is declared by the London “Daily Telegraph” to have received more than one complete opera score from sold er composers. One of these, sent in anonymously, is said to be a genuine masterpiece. M, Gheusi called in a number of expert musicians to review this work, thinking it might be the work of some well known composer, who wished to test the value of his composition solely on its merits. They were unable to “place” it in this way, but all agreed as to its high musical value.

Mr. Maurice Farkoa, the French tenor, who recently died in New York left property of the value of £5193, with net personalty £4896. , Madame Melba has presented a singing scholarship of the value of 75 guineas, tenable for two years, in Mel bourne, but open to singers in New South Wales as well as in Victoria Candidates will have to submit themselves to a preliminary examination by a nominee of Madame Melba’s and the number of competitors will finally be reduced to twenty. From among these Madame Melba will select the winner of the scholarsh : p. No special work is prescribed for competition’ the scholarship will be awarded to the candidate who offers .the most promise for a successful career as a public singer. The tuition will comprise singing, harmony, English diction, French, Italian, operatic class, chcral class, deportment, lectures and personal instruction in the art of sing ing by Madame Melba.

Music in Dublin at the present time is at a standstill, and is 1 kely to be for some considerable time The Sinn Fein Rebellion has put an end to the Feis Cevil for the present at any rate. The twentieth Festival for which there were six hundred and ninety entries (a record number), was to have been held during the second week of May but it is now quite uncertain when it will be held.