Biggest Audience Gives Her the Least Applause.

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 33, 22 February 1935, Page 58

Biggest Audience Gives Her the Least Applause.

FoR more than 10 years Miss Christine Ormiston has known what it is to sing to big audiences, but her biggest "house," the listeners-in, gives her the least applause. Nevertheless, when she is before the microphone, Miss Ormiston sings just as well as ever, for she has had too much experience to be worried by nervousness. She feels the difference in atmosphere, of course, for, although broadcasting artists and officials she has met are happy people to get,along with. this soprano likes to know, while she is singing, just how she is getting along with her audience. "Tf anything should go wrong when your audience is in front of you, they can see the regson for it," said Miss Ormiston. "But on the air a:performer just has to hope that the listeners will understand more than they can see. I had the usual attack of nervousness when. I was first introduced to the microphone, but I soon recovered from that." After studying singing under Madame Brainsby at Whangarei, Miss Ormiston went to the Sydney Conservatorium, and in the course of three years in that city she was also taught by Miss Mabel Bachelor. She took part in amateur productions of the © light operas, "Duchess of Danzig’ and "The Rebel Maid," in Sydney before c¢turning to Auckland, There she became associated with the original Lyric Four, with whom she sang in the northern city and on tour. Since she arrived at Wellington seven years ago, Miss Ormiston hag been associated with the Wellington Choral Society, the Symphony Orchestra. the Commercial Travellers’. Choir, and similar bodies. She has also sung for musical societies in Gisborne, and has — taken part in'a number of public functions and services.