TWO WITH A DIFFERENCE

New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 15

TWO WITH A DIFFERENCE

ZB Musical Programmes HARRY RUBY, who is better than some in setting modern American music to music, is to be featured in 3ZB’s Sunday Music Magazine at 10.45 a.m. on July 13, Ruby composed many favourites, including "O What a, Pal Was Mary," "Three Little Words," and "Smiling Irish Eyes." He has collaborated with George Gershwin, played the piano for Irving Berlin, and accompanied Walter Winchell, who once gathered dollars singing in a department store. Today Ruby, at 52 years of age, is one of Hollywood’s busy men, writing songs for films. * "* * ONGS by Schubert will be presented by Elisabeth Schumann at 3.15 p.m, on Wednesday, July 16, from 2ZB. This famous German operatic soprano, who ~ comes from a long line of notable musicians, is a direct descendant of Henriette »Sontag, one of the great singers of the early 19th Century. Elisabeth Schumann was born in 1891 and at the age of 19 made her debut at the Hamburg Opera. She soon came to be recognised as an outstanding singer of lieder. She toured the United States with Richard Strauss in 1921, and was heard annually at recitals from 1931 onwards. In 1938. she was appointed a teacher of singing at the Curtis Institute of Music.