NEW SONGS FROM 3YA
Work of Christchurch Composer
J-OUR songs composed by Wainwright Morgan, a Christchurch musician who has come home after some years in England, are to be heard for the first time at 7.40 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11, from Station 3YA. They Will be sung by Alison Cordery, soprano, with Mr. Morgan at the piano. Mr. Morgan left for England in 1934, after studying piano with Lillian Harper, and having been accompanist for a time to Hubert Carter, the New Zealand tenor. Early in 1935 he became assistant director to the Webber-Douglas School of Opera and Drama, and toured a good
deal with the opera company attached to the school. The following year he was musical director of "The Twenty Club," a club formed by former students of the Webber-Douglas School, which produced a series of eight revues between 1936 and 1938: the music for them was written by Mr. Morgan and Temple Abady. Then in 1937 a musical show called The Laughing Cavalier with music by Wainwright Morgan and book and lyrics by Stafford Byrne, formerly of Wellington, was produced at the Adelphi
Theatre, with a cast headed by Irene Eisinger (one of the Glyndebourne Opera singers), Arthur Margetson, Nora Swinburne, Charles Heslop, and Viola Tree, and a large chorus and orchestra. The BBC Televised Spring is in the Air, one of the Twenty Club Revues, from Alexandra Palace in 1938, with Wainwright Morgan and Temple Abady playing their own score on two pianos, and in the same year Mr. Morgan wrote .music for 8.45 and All That which was produced at the Royalty Theatre. He also worked with Ernest Irving, musical direc-
tor for Ealing Film Studios, on several. productions. His last show before he joined the RAF in 1940 was a Christmas pantomime put on in 1939; it was based on Hans Andersen’s The Snow Queen, and had Pamela Stanley and Peter Evans in the leading parts. Mr. Morgan was married in England in 1937, to a daughter of Frederick Marriott, R.I., the English etcher. They have a son, aged six. The songs Alison Cordery will sing were composed after Mr. Morgan came back to New Zealand last January.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 376, 6 September 1946, Page 31
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365NEW SONGS FROM 3YA New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 376, 6 September 1946, Page 31
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