MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2664, 8 January 1916, Page 9

MUSIC.

TB; Trisli CLJUJ A Musician Honoured. Among those elevated to knighthood at the Now Year was Sir Thomas Boecham, the distinguished sou of the man who made his name by selling things said to be "worth a guinea a box.' Sir Thomas is a musician and conductor, and in the prosecution of his hobby has spent a great deal of money y/hich had its origin in -the great pill industry. As a devotee of music, Sir Thomas has one big outstanding desire, to produce the grand opera masterpieces in English at prices somewhere within reasonable bounds, and it was ho who took over Hammerstein's Opera House in London after the American impressario failed in his big venture in til© metropolis. Sir Thomas was born ,in 1879, and in 1903 married Miss Utica Welles, daughter of Dr. .Charles S. 'Welles, of New York, a descendant of one of the old Puritan families. It was only in 1914 that Sir Joseph. Beecham, the aforesaid manufacturer, was created a baronet, so' the distinction gained by the son only anticipates the _ "handle," and is a compliment to his ensrgy and- enthusiasm in the cause of music.

A New Baritone. Mr. Derek Hudson, of the J. C. Williamson Hoyal Comic Opera Company, due here shortly, was born at Brighton, England. Air. Hudson studied .medicine, tho law, and engineering. Someone discovered he had a voice, and he studied under Parisotti and Nerola, who, by-the-bye, trained San Marco. He joined Hammerstein at the London Opera House, and sang thirty operas in one season, after which he joined the Beecham Company. At tho Shaftesbury Theatre he played the juvenile load in "The Aiousine," under Kobert Courtenidge, did two years' revue work managing and producing, . afterwards going to South Africa for' J. C. Williamson, Ltd., with the Gilbert and Sullivan Co., and played "The ' Mikado," "Pirate King," and other parts. After tho long and successful run of "Gipsy Love" last year he went for a ' holiday to the bush, and in Gipnsland on a. run, he commenced a hardworking holiday, chasing and being chased by cattle, coked for all hands, was up at five every, morning, and with great regret returned , to take up his work-with the firm of J. C. Williamson,' Ltd. -

Leschetitzky. The death of Leschetitzky, the famous teacher of I'aderowski and other pianists of world celebrity, is announced by American papers on the strength of a "wireless". message received from Dresden last month. As the great Polish musician was bora in 1830, and has been ailing severely of late, the announcement is probably true. Leschetitzky has in a large measure held the position which Liszt occupied in Europe, and his influence has enabled many pianists of more or less celebrity to obtain thoir real start in life. In' Australia his pupils include Mr. Laurence Godrey Smith and Miss Violet Balmain and Miss Yvonne Leverrier (Mme. Charvin). Paderewski's success market! an era in the career of, Leschetitzky, for pupils flockcd to him at Vienna from air quarters of the globe. Be was born in Lanzut, Austrian Poland, aud received his first musical education through his father ' (piano). Young .Theodoro played at ■ concerts when ho was nine years of age, and developed under Carl Czerny (the friend of Liszt) into a great piaiio virtuoso. Leschetitzky lived 27 years at Petrograd, where lie founded the Imperial Conservatorium of "Music in company with Rubinstein. He made concert «ours through Austria, Germany, and Russia, and in IS7R .settled in Vienna, wliero he married his second wifo, Annette Essipoft', in 1881. He has'written many piano compositions and other works, including a successful opera, "Die Erste Falie," produced at Prague in 1867.

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