They Really Are Sisters
LSIE and Doris Waters really are sisters, and they also have four brothers, with whom they formed a family band in their younger days, One of these brothers has risen to fame-he is Jack Warner, comedian. Elsie and Doris studied piano and elocution at the Guildhall School of Music. Elsie also studied the violin. They began their professional career about 1923 performing at concerts, "at homes," and so on, and later joined a concert party. Elsie is fair and "Gert." Doris is dark and "Daisy." 3YA listeners will hear Elsie and Doris Waters on Saturday, May 10. In the Family Music runs in families. One has only to think of the Bachs and the Strausses to realise that. The case of Egon Petri, the virtuoso pianist, is also remarkable in this respect. His father was a violinist, his grandfather an oboist, and his great-grandfather an organist, Egon Petri himself is reputed to be Holland’s foremost. pianist. Quite early in life he was sent to study under Teresa Carreno, of whom: middle-aged New Zealand music lovers still talk enthusiastically. Petri later studied with the great Busoni. 4YA listeners will hear Egon Petri, pianist, on Monday, May 5.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 13
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200They Really Are Sisters New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 13
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