MUSIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 14

MUSIC

(By

F.1.R.)

Erica Mormi Coming A cablegram from Mr. E. J. Carroll, London, to his New Zealand re* nrpspntativp. Leo du Chateau, announces that his 1929 concert engagements will now definitely include Brailowsky, the Russian pianistic genius, and Erica Morini, the glorious young Viennese violiniste, who had the devotees of music at her feet in Europe and America when she made her debut in the art centres of those countries in 1919. Mr. P. Nolan, the distinguished critic of “The Sydney Morning Herald,” who heard Madame Morini in New York, expressed amazement and delight at Mr. Carroll’s successful perseverance in luring this great artiste from the scenes of her wonderful triumphs so early in her career. Morini is the highest paid individual artist that Mr. Carroll has ever engaged for Australia and New Zealand, with the exception of Kreisler. Prior to leaving London. Madame Evelyn Scotney, the Australian opera tic soprano, made two “talkies” and was amazed at the fact that the film and vocalisation were carried on a fabric the size of a postage stamp. She had made a gramophone record on a cotton-like fabric, and was told that the time was not far distant when an opera would be recorded on a reel no bigger than a cotton reel. Madame Scotney will shortly tour Australia and New Zealand under the Ta.it management.

O’SHEA RETURNS

FAREWELL CONCERT EN ROUTE TO AMERICA En route to America, where he lias big: engagements in view, Mr. Alfred O’Shea, the young Irish tenor, will

break his journey in Auckland next month in order to give a short series of recitals. On his last visit Mr. O’Shea attracted large audiences, and no doubt the opportunity will be fully taken advantage of to hear this brilliant young vocalist, prior to his departure to that land of big contracts, the United States. In addition to his vast repertoire of Irish airs, Mr. O’Shea has played leading roles in grand opera with Melba and other artists, and can be relied upon for a varied and entertaining concert. The first concert will be given at the Town Hall on Saturday, February Australian Music Roy Agnew, the promising young Australian composer, who is now in London, recently had his new work, “The Breaking of the Drought/* performed by the Sydney Conservatorium under the direction of Mr. Alfred Hill. It is a setting of a poem by Harley Matthews, and is said to be ranked among the attractive pieces of the year.