Music by Auckland Composers
N two ecasions "in: (the near future Station 1YA is to present a studio programme of works by composers now living in Auckland. The first of these will be heard on Sunday, April 4, at 8.25 p.m., and will consist of songs and piano solos by Henry Shirley, with the composer himself at the piano, and Verlaine Henry (soprano). The songs will
include "Along the Garden Ways," "The Midnight Heur," "Frolic," #A Thought," and "Morning," and the piano solos will be a pastorale and "Where the Tui Sings." For the second programme, to be heard at about the same time on Sunday, April 11, Muriel McFarlane (soprano), Terence O’Rdurke and Treveor Crabbe (baritones), and Alan Pow (piano), will present Songs and Pieces by Thomas Powell. These will include a duet, "In All My Dreams," and a piano solo, "Maricnette’s Dancing Lesson." In several cases both words and music are by Mr. Powell, and all the items will be new to New Zealand listeners. Henry Shirley is already well known in New Zealand as a broadcaster and musician of considerable repute, but Thomas Powell arrived from England only last year. Over twenty of his compositions, many of them written since his arrival, have already been studied by the NZBS and will probably be heard over the next few months. For twelve years Mr. Powell was accompanist for the amateur operatic society of the London South Metropoli-, tan Gas Company (now the South Eastern Gas Board). This society, he says, was regarded as the finest amateur group in Britain, under the musical direction of the late Sydney Herbert. Its reper-
toire included all of the Gilbert and Sullivan works and many other light operas, and there was an orchestra of 30 players. Mr. Powell did not begin to study music seriously until he was nearly 40, he told The Listener. Then he began studying at the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music under H. Farjeon, a professor of harmony and composition for the Royal Academy. At forty, he won two scholarships in these subjects, Now settled at Titirangi, Mr. Powell is optimistic about the future, musically. "If one has creative artistic ability of any sort this country must bring it out. I find Titirangi a source of inspiration," he said. "There is an excellent atmosphere for creative work."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 21
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388Music by Auckland Composers New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 21
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