Brilliant Artist Broadcasts

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 March 1930, Page 5

Brilliant Artist Broadcasts

Miss Edith Harrhy to make. ' New Zealand Tour LSSTENERS throughout New Zealand are to be accorded something special. Miss Hdith Harrhy, who delighted vast audiences last year, is to reappear at 1YA, Friday, March 28, and will subsequently broadcast from the four centres. . Miss Harrhy, who comes from Sydney, is an eminent Welsh composer, pianiste and singer. She will sing six of her own songs, and will play as pianoforte solos, three numbers by Chopin, and one by Rachmaninoff. She has a charming manner at the piano and as a singer plays her ow accompaniments. — : ISS HARRHY had a distinguished eareer 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 Hiomeland, and has appeared in company with such artists as. Robert Radford and Peter Dawson, who sing her songs. The English Press has, on many occasions paid tribute to her soprano voice and to her ability as solo pianiste and accompaniste., As a composer she has written delightful words and music for four books of children’s songs. The charm of her personality makes itself fully felt in her own accompaniment, The 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 with her two little daughters. (In private life Miss Harrhy is Mrs. William C. Beckx Daly.) One of these songs, "Mary Magdalene," is to be sung by Miss Harrhy at 1YA;: Another of her own composition to be presented will be "Roses for the King." Also appearing on the vocal side of the programme at 1YA will be Mr. Roy Dormer, tenor, a member of the popular combination, the New Zealand Four. He will sing, "I Will not Grieve," "She is Far from the Land" and "I Know of Two Bright Byes." The Studio Trio has arranged a programme comprising some delighiful numbers, and Miss Ina ‘Bosworth, violiniste, has included one of Miss Harrhy’s numbers, "Reverie" as one of her items.