FAMOUS ORGANIST
DR. A. SESSIONS ARRIVES BY NIAGARA ACCOMPANIST TO MELBA Dr. Archibald Sessions, distinguished New York organist, is looking forward to renewing acquaintance with Dame Nellie Melba when he arrives in Sydney later in the week on the Niagara. In 1917, the year that the United States entered the Great War, Dr. Sessions accompanied Dame Nellie during her American tour. “Those were stirring times,” said the musician on arrival in Auckland to-day on the liner, “and I am looking forward to again meeting the Queen of Song.” Dr. Sessions is an inveterate globetrotter. Nothing pleases him more, after a strenuous New York season, than to leave his native land and trip abroad. On this occasion he will visit Australia and Java, in addition to European countries, before he returns to the United States. For three years he was organist at the American Church at Paris. He has also been employed in a similar capacity at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian and All Souls’, two of the largest New York churches. Dr. Sessions was a pupil of the late Alexander Guilmant, the famous French master of the organ.
This afternoon the American visitor intends paying his respects to Mr. Maughan Barnett, city organist, and Professor Moor-Karoly, the Hungarian organist, now naturalised and settled in Auckland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 383, 18 June 1928, Page 1
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