NEW ZEALANDER'S RECORD
OME 20 years ago Hubert Carta was S a well-known name in New Zealand. To-day it is equally well know in England, where Mr. Carta acts as an unofficial goodwill ambassador for this country, touring with concert parties and introducing Maori songs to appreciative English audiences, He first attracted attention as a boy soprano, and at sixteen he established his reputation with the difficult tenor role
of Amenophis in Rossini’s opera Moses in Egypt. In 1924 he went to England where he broadcast, and sang with leading choral societies. Returning to New Zealand, he spent some years studying Maori folk-lore and music, and this knowledge he uses to good advantage in his singing. When next he visited England, he was chosen to represent this country in the Abbey Choir at the Coronation of the King and Queen. Since 1940 he has been singing to the troops, accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth Page, and Wainwright Morgan. He collaborated with Morgan in the composition of " Waiata Hinemoa,"’ which H.M.V. have just recorded him singing, coupled with "Ka, Mate! Ka, Mate!" He thus claims the distinction of being the second New Zealand artist to record with H.M.V., Madame Rosina Buckman having been the first.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 15
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204NEW ZEALANDER'S RECORD New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 15
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