Miss Edith Harrhy to appear at 1YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 36, 22 March 1929, Page 9

Miss Edith Harrhy to appear at 1YA

Richly Gifted Singer, Pianiste and Composer,

Miss EDITH HARRHY, who is to arrive in Auckland this week, is under engagement to appear at 1YA on Saturday, March 30, and Wednesday, April 3. This will be an opportunity for New Zealand listeners to hear one of the foremost Australian radio celeb-. rities. , Miss Harrhy had a distinguished career at the Guildhall School of Music, London, where she studied piano, singing, chamber music, ensemble playing, harmony, composition, and opera, under Sir Landon Ronald, Hamish McCunn, Hubert Bath, Edward German, Liza Lehmann, Coleridge Taylor, and others. Miss Harrhy has made many celebrity tours in the Homeland, and has appeared in company with such artists as Robert Radford and Peter Dawson, who sing her songs. As her name suggests, Miss Harrhy is Welsh, and her English Press criticisms are very good, not only as to her soprano yceeze, but as a solo pianr

iste and accompaniste. She is also a’ composer. She has written delightfut words and musie for four books of chlidren’s songs. It is in her own ace companiment to her own songs that the rich charm of her personality makes itself fully felt. These songs are built up on the little happenings of everyday life, and owe their conception to the bedtime song hour which she _ holds every evening for her two little daughters. (In private life Miss Harry is Mrs. William C. Beckx Daly.) One of these songs is "Mary Magdalene,’ which is to be sung by Miss Harrhy at 1YA. Others of her own composition to be sung will be "Roses for the King," "Friendship," and "Golden Wattle." Pianoforte solos will include three works by Chopin, of which she is a great exponent. It was in connection with her playing of Chopin that an English critic said: "She reminds us of the great Pachmann in the delicacy of her feeling and fineness of her touch."