VIOLIN PRODIGY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 154, 17 July 1937, Page 11

VIOLIN PRODIGY

Alan Loveday to Play with Hastings Orchestra Many citizens exprcssed thoir regret becauso last year they did uot hear and see New Zealand's boy genius ou the violin, Alan Loveday. They will have another opportunity nest Monday night in the Municipal Theatre, when the Hastings Orcheetral Society will present its first concert for the season. Tho boy — a real boy of cfiarming personality — is just nine years of ■ago and now plays a* f ull-sized violin. With the most difficult violin solos in his repertoire, he has to play them only„ four or five times to memoriee them, so has ho music on the stage. The society^ urges you to be present and hear him play and then use your infiuence to urge the authorities to eend this boy, son of a roturned soldier, to Europe for special training. The singer at the concert will be Miss Myra Sawyer, Who will be remombered by some in Hastings for her delightful rendoring of ballads, She is now reeognised as a great singer, and last year made a most suecessful tour of the Australian broadcasting stations. The orchestra will be mounted in the modern manner on the stage, so that the audience may see all the players, and under the baton of dts enthusiastic young conductor, Cedric White, the sodety will present a programme that will suit all tastes, on Monday next. Keep the date in mind, enjoy the entertainment, and help a local society, one of the few amateur orchestras left in New Zealand. ■