Around The Nationals

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 89, 7 March 1941, Page 24

Around The Nationals

ae SRO | EVERAL of his compositions will be included by Adolph Mann, the visiting English pianist, in the recitals which he will give from 1YA on March 12, March 26, April 9, and April 23. One of them is " Australian Rhapsody," which was written after a visit to the historic Vaucluse House in Sydney, about two years ago. Two other items are " The Sheep-fold in the Hills" and " A Breezy Day," from his " Memories of the Open" -titles which testify to the composer’s inherent fondness for outdoor subjects. * * %* HE "Singing Nurse," Dorothy Stentiford, who is the possessor of a rich contralto voice, will be heard from 1YA on Wednesday, March 12. For over 10 years, while she was nursing at the Seacliff Mental Hospital near Dunedin, she was a regular performer from 4YA, but at present she is taking a postgraduate course in the occupational therapy department at the Auckland Mental Hospital, so 1YA has arranged a studio recital. Despite the fact that Dorothy Stentiford’s time is almost completely taken up by her work, she loves music so much that she manages to find time daily for practice. * * % AM DUNCAN, who is contributing to 1YA’s programme on Saturday evening, March 15, has been singing periodially over New Zealand stations since 1926. For eight years he appeared as first tenor in the radio combination, "The Melodie Four," of Wellington. This later became "The Melodie Five," through the inclusion of Bert Burton as pianist. | Mr. Duncan is a lyric tenor, an unusual type of voice in New Zealand. He is at present first tenor in the Auckland "Melody Five," but leaves early in March for Hamilton. * % * LAUDE O’HAGAN, the popular bassbaritone, who is well known throughout Canterbury for his rendering of "There'll Always Be An England," may shortly be going on tour with the Australian Broadcasting Commission. In his next broadcast from 3YA, on Monday, March 10, he is to sing a new song, "Lads of New Zealand," composed by Eileen Dennehy. Mr. O’Hagan is widely known through his generosity in singing for patriotic causes, and during the last war sang in practically every district in Canterbury. % * * GeopP pastures are the mainspring of the primary industries of New Zealand. Pastures produce the great bulk of the Dominion’s wealth and restore the fertility of cropped-out soils. They are the foundation on which rests the prosperity of the individual farmer as well as that of the community as a whole. From 3YA, the staff of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, is presenting a series of seven talks on the grasslands of Canterbury. The introductory talk will be given by the Director of this College, Professor E. R. Hudson, on Thursday, March 13, at 7.15 p.m. The remaining talks will follow on the second and fourth Thursday of each month at the same hour,