Oscar Natzke Returns
NCE a relief worker, blacksmith, country lad, Oscar Natzke has just returned to New Zealand from overseas experience which has placed him in the front rank of great bass singers. He is tall, handsome, has a fine physique, a magnificent voice-everything that means success for a singer. Success is now coming to him after five years of apprenticeship with teachers overseas. Arrangements have been made for him to broadcast from 2YA at 8.42 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, and at 9.25 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19. He will sing in New Zealand Centennial Festival programmes and later visit Australia, South Africa, and the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Oscar Natzke was born in Matapara, Waikato, 27 years ago. In 1922 his father died and he was set to blacksmithing. His parents had taken a private hotel on Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf. Mrs. Natzke was proud of her son’s voice. She herself played the violin and the organ. Then the depression came and young Natzke worked on relief. However, interest in his voice was attracted from Galli-Curci, John Brownlee, Mary Campbell. Finally Anderson Tyrer heard him and decided something must be done. An Auckland committee helped him to go to England and take up a Trinity College three years’ scholarship. He worked hard, and his voice developed so astonishingly well that he was given an extra year. Additional tuition followed at Milan. Now he is back to begin in his homeland a career which has unlimited possibilities.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 38, 15 March 1940, Page 12
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251Oscar Natzke Returns New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 38, 15 March 1940, Page 12
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