HAZELL-SUTHERLAND DUO

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 29, 3 February 1928, Page 5

HAZELL-SUTHERLAND DUO

NEW COMBINATION FOR 1YA

[THE latest duo engaged by 1YA, consisting of Miss Phyllis Hazell and Mr. Frank Sutherland, will appear for the first time on Wednesday, I’ebruary 1, when their items wili be interspersed in the programme to be given at the Municipal Band concert in Albert Park. The Radio Broadcasting Company is certainly fortunate in obtaining the services of Miss Hazell, who has come to reside in Auckland, and who has frequently performed from: 2FC. Sydney, where letters were often received from New Zealand listeners requesting the repetition of many of her items. Miss Phyllis Hazell is a prominent Sydney contralto. She las made very’ successful appearances in Sydney and Melbourne on the concert plattorm,

| and in 1924 was engaged by the Auckland Royal Male Choir and other New Zealand musical societies to tour New Zealand and sing at the various subkscription concerts. So successful was this tour that extra concerts were arranged in the various centres, and the patronage went to show that Miss Hazell possesses a voice of exceptional _ merit, Miss Hazell’s performance at the Royal Auckland Choir coucert was the subject of the following comment which appeared in the "‘New Zealand Herald’’: "The society has made a happy choice in securing as an additional attraction for their concerts the services of Miss Phyllis Hazeli, the young Australian contralto, Not only is the visitor the possessor of a fine natural voice, which has evidently been well trained, but she has that rare gift, imagination, which enables her to visualise the possibilities of everything she sings. Her intonation is unexceptional, while her cultured diction is an object lesson to yocal students. Last night Miss Hazell made no less than four programme appearauces, after the last two of which she secured double recalls.’’