AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 70, 1 July 1910, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

_ MADAME CARRENO. The sale of reserved seats for the Carreno season f to commence at the Theatre Royal, on Tuesday next, is pro-, ceeding satisfactorily at Collier's. The! success of Herr "Schrek's enterprise isi now- assured. It. is interesting to recount the great men of .the piano with whom Teresa Carreno studied or has been associated. She was first taught; by her father, a most accomplished amateur himself. At nine years of age, when she -had already played as a child prodigy, she passed (under the tuition of Gottschalk, who had been a pupil of Chopin. At twelve she went to Europe and met Camillo Stamaty, who took great interest in her as long as he lived. She then became the pupil of George Matliine—another Chppin student—then of Rubinstein, who delighted to call her his "daughter"; and, of Liszt, who voidi her, the gods had given her ,the greatest j ojft—genius; and Gounod was her own and her father's friend during their long residence in Paris- i