Tenor from Rotorua

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 506, 4 March 1949, Page 20

Tenor from Rotorua

Y this time Auckland listeners will have already heard the tenor Geoffrey Moore, in a broadcast from 1YA on Sunday, February 27. They will hear him again, this week, at 8.0 p.m. on Wednesday (March 2), and at 9.30 p.m. on Friday (March 4). These are the first broadcasts of a six weeks’ tour of the main National stations, and the first singing he has done in his own country since he recently completed his studies in Australia. Geoffrey Moore is a returned serviceman from Rotorua who went to study at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music two years ago under a rehabilitation scholarship. During those years he developed his talents to such an extent that Eugene Goossens, Director of the Conservatorium, described him as one of the outstanding young singers in Sydney. In a recent Conservatorium production of Pagliacci he sang in the tenor role of Canio, giving a performance which Eugene Goossens said marked him as "a singer with a big future." In recent months Geoffrey Moore has recorded extracts from musical comedies such as The Desert Song, and has broadcast in ABC Light Programmes. He sang for three months at the Prince Edward Theatre in Sydney, and made a tour of ‘New South Wales_as a-soloist-for the

ABC. Last December he appeared in Gustave Charpentier’s opera Louise, in the role of Julien. Next week listeners will hear him in three recitals from 2YA. They are timed for 8.43 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, 8.35 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, and 8.41 p.m. on Thursday, March 10. He will sing programimes of ballads, classical and operatic solos, art songs and popular melodies. The accompanist will be Elsie Betts Vincent. Later recitals will be from 3YA on March 14, 16, and 18; from 4YA on March 20, 22, and 24; from 4Y¥Z on March 27, 29, and 31; and from 2YA on April 5, 6, and 8.