Local Composers' Works at 2YA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 22 June 1928, Page 7

Local Composers' Works at 2YA

ON Monday next, June 25, the Ariel Singers will present an interesting programme of compositions by a Lower Hutt musician, Mr. Claude M. Haydon, Mus.Bac. Born in Melbourne, Mr. Haydon came toa New Zealand in 1921, and has given recitals of his own works in Wellington and Lower Hutt. His first important composition was the incidental music for a performance of "The Wasps’? of Aristophanes, in connection with the Melbourne University Jubilee celebrations, in 1906. Mr. Haydon gained his degree at that University in 1911, Local listeners-in will remember that his opera, "Paola and Francesca" was successfully produced in Wellington by the Harmonic Society in 1926. In addition to many songs, etc., Mr. Haydon has written chamber music, violin solos, and ’cello solos, a string quartet of his having been performed in Vienna last year. The programme of his works to be presented by the Ariel Singers on Monday, together with his "‘Phantasie Trio," played by the Symons-Ellwood-Short Trio, and his "Ballade in E Flat," for solo violin (Miss Ava Symons) and orchestra, will give a good idea of the style and characteristics of this capable musician, who is deservedly highly esteemed in local circles, Mr, A. Stanley Warwick will contribute elocutionary numbers to the programme.