THE WILLIAM RENSHAW QUARTET

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 15, 28 October 1927, Page 7

THE WILLIAM RENSHAW QUARTET

In the William Renshaw quartet 2YA presents a combination of artists requiring neither commendation nor introduction. Miss Nota Greene (contralto) and Mr. William Renshaw (ten or) are established favourites, whose attistic capabilities are widely known and appreciated. Their delightful voices have been heard "over the air’ in a wide range of always pleasing numbers, while their fine record as concert performers is as widely known as their talent is appreciated. If there is anything new to be said concerning them it is that these two. popular and cultured singers have entered the ranks of

the teaching profession in Wellington. Miss Nora Greene has had considerable experience in England in broadcasting work, having been a favourite artiste at Bournemouth, Daventry, 21,0, etc. She has also sung with great success at Queen’s Hall, Palladium, and various concert halls in London and the provinces, where her beautiful contralto voice never failed to delight, and where she was famed equally for her splendid diction as for her renditions Miss Greene studied under Madaine Agnes Larcom (at the Royal Academy), than whom there is no ‘greater teacher: ef voice production. : Mr. William Renshaw also has had considerable experience in England before comite to New Zealand. His appealing tenor voice was there heard to great advantage on the concert platform and in Oratorio music in London and the provinces. He, too, has made a special studv of diction, and no fur. fher proof of that is needed when it is’ remenibered how beautifully clear his

voice sounds to those who listen-in in New Zeaiand and Australia. Mr, Renshaw studied for many years with Mr. Herbert Oliver, the eminent composer, in london. Associated with Mr. Oliver in a tutorial capacity was the great Einglish soprano Miss Carrie Tubb and Miss Edith Turmedge (contralto). Mr. Thomas C. Wood, the bass baritone of the quartet, is a singer whose voice is familiar to concert patrons in many patts of New Zealand. In Wellington Mr. Wood:is a soloist for various musical societies. Just now he is under engagement to sing "The King of Keypt" in Verdi’s opera "Aida," which is to he produced by the Wellington Choral Union on Navember 5. Mr. j

Wood, who is the fortunate possessor of a brilliant baritone voice of outstanding range and quality, has been the subject of many laudatory Press criticisms. Mrs. Amy Dunn is a _ sitger who has won popularity with a wide sudience,. Her fine dramatic soprano yoice has delighted patrons of our largest theatres, She as been heard at Fullers (His Majesty’s Theatre) and the De Luxe, and by the patrons of the Hutt Choral "Society. Her solo work has invariably pleased the critics. Listeners to 2YA who have hear Mrs. Amy Dunn before will be pleased to fearn that she is to sine to them again. The. William Renshaw quartet will offer musical eutertainment from a ‘copious repertoire. They will be heard in operatic works, in the sparkling gems of Sullivan, in old English folk songs, and popular melodies, thus presenting a vatiety which should make the most passionate appeal,