COLIN HORSLEY RETURNS
be heard with the National Orchestra of Tuesday, May 13, is still, as we go to press, on the water. But assuming that the Ruahine arrives at the expected time, Colin Horsley, the young Wanganui musician, who left for England nearly nine years ago, will’ play Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the orchestra in the programme shown on page 28 in this issue. Colin Horsley.is the son of R. B. Horsley, of Aramoho, and a descendant of Dr. William Horsley, an English organist of last century, who was a friend of Mendelssohn. He started ‘playing round on the piano at home when he was very small, and later had lessons from Miss Rata Johnson, of Wanganui, In 1937 he went to Auckland wita a hockey team, and from this point on’ his story can be told by T. Scott, a master at Mt. Albert Grammar School, who heard him play during entertainments for the teams. In the same week some of the boys sang over 1YA in the solo pianist scheduled to
Children’s Hour, and Colin Horsley played some variations on a nursery tune, Mr. Scott got him to come to Auckland again in the following year, and, he played for the Society of Musicians, and the Travel Club. At the Travel Club a committee was formed to start a fund to send him to England, and then Wanganui formed a similar committee. There was another recital in Auckland, packed out, and then Horsley won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. After some more recitals and gsome broadcasts, when £700 had been collected altogether and some individual helpers had given assistance, he left for London in September, 1938. He studied with Irene Scharrer and the late Tobias Matthay, and during the war gave recitals for the forces under ENSA. In the last three years he has played with all the leading British orchestras, under Malcolm Sargent, *Sir Adrian Boult, Basil Cameron, Karl Rankl, Albert Coates, and others, and the English press has been full of praise for his playing. Colin Horsley will tour the main National stations while he is in New Zealand, |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 411, 9 May 1947, Page 15
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