A Noteworthy Artist

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 48, 13 June 1930, Page 2

A Noteworthy Artist

Mr. Barend ‘Harris fe (CONTINUING his New Zealand tour, Mr. Barend Harris, the Sydney bass-baritone, who has already fulfilled three engagements at 1YA, will appear at 2YA on Monday and Thursday next week. Mr. Harris will again sing several Hebrew folk songs, but listeners will have the pleasure of hearing this magnificent singer in songs like "The Song of the Volga Boatmen," "The Carnival," "The Song of the Toreador," "My Old Shako," and "The Filotal Dance." One of the Hebrew sqngs will be the well-known "Kol Nidrei." The Broadcasting. Company has been particularly fortunate in being able to engage an artist of Mr. Harris’s calibre for a tour of the New Zealand stations, Mr. Harris was a member of the Melba-Williamson Opera Company, and was soloist in Broughton’s "The Immortal Hour," which Dr. Arundel Orchard produced at the Conservatorium. He toured. for twelve months under J. C. Williamson, Ltd., and Union Theatres, Ltd. He was the soloist at the Sydney State Theatre, the second week it opened, and has appeared as soloist at many of Union Theatre’s presentations, Mr. Harris is — at present the bass soloist of the Great Synagogue Choir of Sydney. His Hebrew songs have never pr viously been sung in the Dominion, anc some of them have not been sung in Australasia before.’ They. are entirely new, and are unlike: any other songs. Mr. Harris has made a special study of Hebrew songs, of which there ig no other singer in either New Zealand ov Australia. ,