MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1442, 13 December 1917, Page 34

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

Madame Maggie MacCann, the popular Scottish vocalist, who recently returned to Australia from a successful tour of Great Britain and America, gave her first concert in Melbourne at the Aud torium last Wednesday evening, the sth. The projected New Zealand tour of the famous vocalists Madame Evelyn Scotney and Mr. Howard Wh’te has been abandoned. This brilliant pair have to return to America at once to fulfil contracts already made. Madam Charvin, more widely known as Miss Yvonne Leverrier, the brilliant Franco-Australian p’anist, died n Sydney on November 10. Miss Leverrier showed remarkable talent for music at an early age. She studied for years in Paris and Vienna, and developed into an artist with a highly-finished style, em'nent _n the per’ection of her technique. Madame Alma Gluck, one of the most successful angers in the United States at the present time, began earning her living as a stenographer in a New York law office, and rose to fame on the operatic stage in the short space of six years. Though she had sung from childhood, the last thing her parents thought her. suitable for was the musical profession, so they let her go into an office. And she became so interested n the law that she made up her mind to be a lawyer, and even matriculated at the law schools of the University of New York. Later she was advised to cultivate her voice, and did so, w’th the result that she has signed a five years’ contract to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.