MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1507, 13 March 1919, Page 29

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String)

“It is not Tosti’s ‘Good-Bye For Ever,’ but simply ‘God Be With You Till We Meet Again’,” said Dame Nellie Melba on January 21 at Sydney, as she went on board the mail steamer Niagara as a passenger for Vancouver. “Say that I’ll come back as soon as I can. Say for me that I send my love to everyone in this land of freedom and sunshine, and tell those who wish me well that I am leaving Australia with a light heart now that my dear good friend and very old associate in music, John Lemmone, is regaining health and strength.”

A “Te Deum,” which has a place in the services at Westminster Abbey, is the composition of Master Oswald Moats, of Folkestone. The composer, who is a chorister at the Abbey, is not yet 15. He has been appointed deputy - organist at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London. An interesting outcome of women’s war activities is a piano made entirely by a 16-year-old girl for an English piano firm, and which has been pronounced by the firm’s inspector as entirely satisfactory. The violin varfbs more with the weather than does any other instrument.