OTHER ACTIVITIES

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20498, 14 May 1938, Page 15 (Supplement)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

I Pianist to Tauber When Richard Tauber, tenor, comes to Australia shortly his pianist will be Percy Kahn. Mr Kahn was in New Zealand years ago as accompanist to Rosina Buckman, the New Zealand soprano, and her husband, Maurice d'Oisley, tenor. Tibbett Makes Audience Laugh Here i-s an American “Lullaby,” by i Gladys Rich, as sung by Lawrence I Tibbett : Hush-a-bye, you sweet little baby, Don't you cry any more, Daddy is down at his stockbroker’s office , A-keeping the wolf from the door Nursie will raise the window shade high So you can see the cars whizzing by. Home In a hurry Daddy must fly To a baby like you. Hush-a-bye, you sweet little baby, Close your pretty blue eyes. Mother has gone to her weekly bridge parly To get her wee baby the prize. Nursie will turn the radio on, So you can hear a sleepy-time song, I Sung by a lady whose poor heart must long For a baby like you. Stewart Wille, Mr Tibbett’s pianist, says they put it over a lot in America, and it always gets the biggest laugh. It certainly got one in Sydney. They Were Pupils at Conservatorlum All the prize-winners in the £65 aria contest at the Sydney Eisteddfod, announced on this page last week, were pupils at the Sydney Conservaioriuin, thoush they had come from all parts of AustraliaTlbbett’s Second Programme In Sydney The programme for Lawrence Tibbett's second programme in Sydney was:— “Where’er You Walk” (Handel), “The Bailiff's Daughter” (Old English , “Nacht und Traume” (Schubert), “Meine Liebe ist grun” (Brahms), "Allerseelen” (Strauss), “Ewig" (Wolff), “Largo al Factotum” from "The Barber of Seville” (Rossini , “To the Forest” (Tschaikowsky), In the Silent Night” (Rachmaninoff), “Death, the Commander” (Moussorgsky), **A Kingdom by the Sea” (Somervell), “The Song of the Flea” (Moussorgsky).