MUSICAL FIND
WEST AUSTRALIAN GIRL LONDON, September 3. Eileen Joyce, the twenty-one-year-old Australian pianist, lias become' Britain’s latest musical discovery. Critics have been charmed by her playjog under Sir Henry Wood, Mr Albert Coates and Mr Adrian Boult, ait the promenade concerts and elsewhere. Gramophone records, which the newspapers widely praise, have now increased her fame. ' Miss Joyce said to-day that her father was an impoverished Western 'Australian miner, and that she coilld not read or write until she was eleven. A priest heard the playing in a .Boulder City hotel and was so impressed that he persuaded the nuns of the city •jo take her into the convent and further her studies. Wilhelm Backhaus later helped her, ■and she made a concert tour of Australia from, which £OOO was raised. Then she went to Europe, studying four years at Leipzig. Now she is one of the most brilliant young pianists of England, with many concert and broadcast engagements ~ahead.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1933, Page 8
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