PEOPLE IN THE PROGRAMMES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 20

PEOPLE IN THE PROGRAMMES

M.A. at 19! F he were not a modest person, Paul Magill, of Wellington, would have every justification to boast of achievement. Wellingtonians know him as one of the finest young pianists in the Capital, but no less brilliant has been his advance as a scholar. Paul passed his M.A. examination at the age of 19. He has also gained the L.T.C.L. His is a true success story, and one in which the plot is mainly hard work. He is already a Gold and Silver medallist, has won three exhibitions at Trinity College, and has had great success in competitions in Wellington for a number of years. He has been studying music now

for about 12 years, and in the past few years he has been heard over 2YA Wellington on numerous occasions. He was a pupil of Wellington College, and his teacher of music is Mrs. Ethel Mackay. As with most young people who have worked hard, and who look ahead to bigger ambitions, Paul Magill is reticent about his accomplishments so far. In music, he prefers the old composers to the modern; at the moment, he is concentrating on Bach. He will be heard soon from 2YA Wellington. Specialises in Scottish Songs OROTHY MACKAY is a Dunedin soprano, and one of that city’s most popular singers. She specialises in

Scottish, and Hebridean songs, and has been soloist for the Dunedin SBurns’s Anniversary concerts, Hallowe’en concerts, and Scottish ‘concerts in Invercargill, Balclutha, Kelso, Palmerston South, and Timaru. She has also sung oratorio as soloist for the Dunedin Choral Society in "The Messiah," and has been soloist also for the Royal Dunedin Male Choir and the Orchestral Society.

From 2YA to 4YA | re THOMAS, bass: baritone, will broadcast from 4YA at 8.8 p.m. on Saturday, June 8. He was a regular

performer for 2YA before coming to Dunedin two years ago, and since then has sung from 4YA on several occasions. He has been soloist for practically every musical society in New Zealand, and has also. been an active member of

the Wellington and Wanganui operatic societies.

A New Tenor bye singing and football go well together? B. A. Treseder, a new tenor who will be heard in his first broadcast on June 12, from 2YA Wellington, believes they do, for his favourite occupation, after his music, is kicking the leather. Mr. Treseder has been studying singing for about three years under Mrs. G. M. Taylor.

Worked on N.Z. Farm ANNY MALONE: His name is always in the programmes somewhere. As a youth he came to New

Zealand with a party of Irish imgrants. He worked on a farm for a while but left for England and was not there very long before he had secured a BBC audition, That was the beginning of a long career for a very popular ballad singer, who

has broadcast in most English-speaking countries.

Natzke and Nash 8 can NATZKE, New Zealand bass, and Heddle Nash, English tenor, both at present touring New Zealand for the Centennial Music Festival, have been engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to tour Australia together. . The announcement is made concur. rently with notice that Peter Dawson is going back on the Australian air with

ten broadcasts from the ABC Studios in Sydney, scheduled to begin last week. _ Nash and Natzke will be in Australia about ‘three months, from the end of July. The Gefieral Manager of the ABC (Charles Moses) says that not since Althouse and Middleton toured Australia 15 years ago have they had a tenor and basso of such calibre touring together. They intend to use both in the main roles in oratorios conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.