HE TOOK PART IN A "BLITZTOUR"
RANCIS BATE, who with Gladys Vincent and Ernest Jenner will be heard from station 3YA playing Chausson’s Trio in G Minor on Monday, April 21, will remember all his life the tour of New Zealand which he made last year as a member of the Centennial String Quartet. With Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, Heddle Nash, and Oscar Natzke, the quartet visited nearly every important provincial town in New Zealand. They started at Nelson, played in West Coast towns, then worked up from Invercargill to Whangarei, travelling 2,500 miles in just over three weeks. The party lived in suitcases, travelled most of the day, played at night and spent their spare time rehearsing. "Blitztour" was how Clifford Huntsman, the English pianist, described it. Francis Bate studied the ’cello at the Birmingham Conservatorium under Johan Hock of the Leipzig Conservatorium, and was a member of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the time of Appleby Matthews. Guest conductors he played under included such famous men as Adrian Boult and Landon Ronald. In Christchurch, Mr. Bate has been heard regularly from 3YA as a member of the trio which will broadcast from -2YA on Monday, Gladys Vincent, who in private life is Mrs. Bate, is leader of the 3YA orchestra. Mr, Bate returned to England for a visit in 1928, and toured the country with the Paul Belinfante String Quartet. A photograph of Mr. Bate appears in the "People in the Programmes" section.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 8
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245HE TOOK PART IN A "BLITZTOUR" New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 8
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