First Artiste on Broadcast Tour

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 40, 19 April 1929, Page 7

First Artiste on Broadcast Tour

Miss Edith Harrhy, Welsh Pianiste-Singer ¥ BELow is given a photo of the eminent Welsh composer-pianiste-singer, Miss Edith Harrhy, who has been delighting 1YA and 2YA auCiences, and who crosses to the South Island next week in continuation of her contract with the Broadcasting Company to give two recitals at each of the New Zealand stations. This is the first occasion on which the Broadcasting Company has made an engagemént with an overseas artist to appear on the New Zealand broadcast circuit. In Miss Edith Harrhy the company secured a charming radio personality and a very gifted artist-she is a singer and pianiste, as well as being a

composer. Miss Harrhy makes a feature of singing the songs which she has herself composed. She has also written pianoforte and violin studies and an opera by her is to be performed in London next year, AFTER a brilliant career at the Guildhall School of Music, London, Miss Harrhy has become during the past five years very prominent as a composer, and she is now well known in musical circles. It is perhaps her children’s songs that are the most widely circulated. These charming song poems have been built up on the human incidents of everyday life, and owe their conception to the bedtime song hour which she holds every evening for her two small daughters. ; ; Miss Harrhy’s vocal numbers for 3YA on Wednesday, 24, be "Mother’s Song," "Roses for the King," "Golden Wattle" (all composed by Miss Harrhy), and "Slumber Song," a composition by Mr. R. A. Horne, manager of "The Bristol," Christchurch. An interesting incident is connected with "Roses for the King." The verses were founded on a cable sent from London relating to a member of the Sea Wolves, who took flowers to the King during his recent illness. Miss Harrhy put the verses to music and the song was entitled "Roses for the King." Miss Harrhy was the recipient of a letter from Buckingham Palace in appréciation of her work, Thé pianoforte items which Miss Harrhy will play will cofmprise three works by Chopin and ore by Moussorgski.