Sydney Conservatorium

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 54, 25 July 1930, Page 7

Sydney Conservatorium

Benefit to New Zealand * Radio. HAT New Zealand has beuefited greatly from the Sydney Conservatorium ‘of Music cannot be disputed, and in no more effective way than by the broadcasting service is that influence being disseminated. Musicians who have received training at the Conservatorium frequently broadcast from the YA stations. In Christchurch, three of the leading artists at 3¥A are ex-students. They are: Miss Merle Miller (studio pianiste and mezzo-sop-rano singer), Miss Dorothy Davies ¢pianiste of the Christchurch Broadeasting Trio), and Mr. Harold Beck (cellist of the trio and orchestral conductor). All three are in the first flight of radio artists and very popular performers. It is interesting to note that Miss Davies was a pupil of Mr, Frank Hutchens, Profesor of the Piano at the Concervatorium, one of whose compositions, "Trio in F Sharp Minor," is to be played by the Christchurch Broadeasting Trio on Sunday, August 3. This trio by Hutchens is a charming piece of work. It is written in the modern style in one movement. There is a blending of romance, vigour and restlessness (conveyed by quick and unusual changes of key). The opening bars are of a foreboding character. The energetic first theme soon finds place, however, banishing melancholy, which in turn gives place to the second theme in the extraneous key of BE, giving a feeling of sadness and seeking. The usual development section is a new idea groping back first by the ‘cello and then by the violin, with a faint allusion to the first theme. without its early energy, rising always, eventually to flutter down in a caden-za-like passage for both stringed instruments, to a sudden declaration of Theme I in all its first vigour. The eoda bears out the. hopefulness of Theme I, rising gradually in syncopated rhythm, giving greater strength, to end in triumph in the major key