MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1383, 26 October 1916, Page 34

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

Mr. Peter Dawson, the Adelaide singer, who toured New Zealand some months ago with his concert party, was at latest advices appearing at the Tivoli Theatre, Capetown. Miss Clara Simons, the Australian soprano, lias been engaged to sing in the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company during its present (the 47th) season in England. Paul Rubens, the author of “Tonight’s the night,” has, it is stated, never been known to be on time for an appointment. He contracted this incorrigible habit at school, and has never since conquered it. “To-night’s the Night” will shortly be seen in New Zealand. William Murdoch’s latest move in the musical world has brought him to the front as a euphonium player. This brilliant Australian pianist learnt the instrument in order to join the band of the Brigade of Guards. At the same time Albert Sammons, a leading English violinist, enlisted v.ith the reed section of the same military musicians, so that it was a case of fxddle to clarinet, piano to pom-pom. Mr. Murdoch, who is now a recognised exponent of Dubussy in English art circles, hails from Bendigo, and as a boy carried off 36 first prizes at important Victorian eisteddfods. He studied at the Melbourne University Conservatorium on one scholarship, and at the Royal College of Music, London, on another. At the Royal College his prize-winning proclivities were re-asserted. This besetting weakness of his student days caused him to deprive the other fellows of the gold and silver medals, the Brinsmead grand piano, and the Dannreuther prize for concerto playing.