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PERSONALITIES

of the week

JOHN THORNE’S MASTER JLUNKETLT GREENE once heard John Thorne singing in 2 concert its Qn amateur, and this wag perhaps the best piece of good fortune that Thorne ever had, ‘he famous IrishInin recommended the singer to see Mr. J, Francis Harford, said by Wbenezer Prout to be the greatest singer of Bach in the world, and an operatic singer of experience and -ability. John Thorne owes much to Mr, Harford, and worked hard for ten years doing nothing bul {rain on Wagner, Handel, Bach and: Sehubert;. Every radio lHstener who hears John Thorne’s records knows the result of this splendid vocal und artis: tic discipline. No wonder he speaks in glowing terms of his master. Origiually intended for a life at sen. John Thorne could not resist the lure of music.

"OTELLO" CAST (yurre a musical event, and one with a special significance, is the addition of Verdi’s opera "Otello" to tlie rota of grand operas which are sched. uled for the national stations during. 1985. This extraordinarily fine master piece of the great Italian composer will be sung by a brilliant caste, chorus and. orchestra of Lua Seala Opera, Milan, under Carlo Sabajno, with Vittore Veneziani as chorus master. The principals are Otello (tenor), Nicolo Fusati, Cassio (tenor), Piero Girardi, Lodovico (bass), Corrado Zambelli, a Ilerald and Montano (bass), Enrico Spada, Emilia (mezzo-soprano), Tamara Beltacchi, Iago (baritone), Apollo Granforte, Roderigo (tenor), Nello Palai, and Desdemona (soprano), Maria Carbone. , GOLDEN-VOICED DANISE UISEPPE DANISH, the golden-voic-ed baritone, is of Italian descent and studied under Colonnesi in the conseryatory of Naples. He has sung in the great opera houses of Burope, South America and the United States, appearing for two years at La Scala. Milan. lle is also an actor of great power, and there are times when he might be ¢alled the tenor of baritones, so smoothly does his suave voice mount from the depths to the heights, subtly cadenced to make the most of the passing: emotion, etching fleeting impressions with extraordinary sweetness. His epochmaking singing at the New York Metropolitan Opera House covers principal roles in "Tosca," "Rigoletto," "Fedora," "Andrea Chenier," "Thais," "Faust." and "The Masked Ball." COCHRAN’S "BETTER ’OLE"’ THE last year of the war saw one of C. B. Cochran’s biggest successes produced-this was Captain Bruce Bairnsfather’s play, "The Better ’Ole,"’ in which the world-famed creation, ‘‘Old Bill,’ was brought to life by the late Atthur Bourchier, following the unique impersonation in a short revue sketch. Which had Jobu Humphries to thank for its success. The music of the play Was in the capable hands of Herman Darewski and his ‘numbers made a great hit. The play went round the world, the American production having Charles Coborn in the main role. Ir scored heavily everywhere, except, curiously enough, in Lancashire, where it failed at Oldham, Wigan, Bolton and Blackburn, after being "taken to. the hearts of the Mancurians. ‘TLL PLAY THAT ONE!" OTH the father and mother of W II. Squire, the noted English ’cellist. were most enthusiastic musicians. In one of the districts of Devonshire, where his father was a bank manager, a chamber music circle was formed .

and the first sight of a ’cello fired young Squire’s imagination. After a brief experience of chamber music-making by his elders, the boy one day. declared oracularly: "Daddy, when I grow up, V’ll play that one!" On the strength o that utterance the father sent to Lon(on and bought a half-sized ’cello for

i ii hi hh his son, In less than a year W. H. Squire appeared at a local choral society concert, later on being heard by Sir George (then Mr.) Grove, he w. given half a sovereign, and soon af was on his way with his £100 prese tion Villaume, to the Royal College Musie and fame, CARAVAN-LESS MAGYARS WALFORD HYDEN, following ou: an idea he has long held, has formed a little band of ten players to perform a rather special type of music in i rather special way. He has chosen his ten instrumentalists very carefully with particular regard to the’ instruments they play, and-on paper the combination has an interesting but very puzzling appearance. But listeners already agree that Mr. Hyden has been very happy in his choice, and the more curious may even try to guess exactly of what instruments the bantt is composed. It is safe to wager that not one in.a hundred will guess correctly. One other thing to note: a Magyar orchestra is not simply a band for playing Magyar music, Every kind

of music, folk music, gipsy music, light music, comes within the scope of a combination like this. After all very few still performed which are taken from "The Pearl Fishers" and "The Fair Maid of Perth." Aagyars actually live in carayans toay. HERMAN THE RUSSIAN HERMAN DAREWSKI was born in Russia, where he lived quietly and contentedly until he was three years old, when his parents, presumably thinking a change of air and scene would be desirable, moved: to England. Darewski’s first impressions of the Old Country (ours, not his) were musica!

ones. He cannot remember when he Was not in the thick of music, in the actual atmosphere of it-mostly classical music at that. As long as he cau remember he could sit at the piano an play anything he had heard once. His: first composition was published by Chappells when he was sixteen. He is responsible for the famous wartime tongue-twister, "Sister Susie." THE "KNAPSACK BREED" LIEUTENANT C. H, HASSBLL was made first bandmaster of H.M. Irish Guards Band out of 100 applicunts when the band was first formed in 1900. He is of the ‘Knapsack Breed," being. the son of a fighting sol-

dier_and born March 1, 1866. At12 he enlisted; the following year he weut to Kneller Hall to study the clarinet under Lazarus. His next step was an appointment us bandmaster of the Fourr) Battalion King’s Royal Rifles in 1s9v. where after eight years he left to join the Irish Guards. During the Great War this magnificent band: served in France on three occasions, also in Italy With the massed bands. The band is some 65 strong, being a strong combination which includes some of the finest musicians of the British Army.

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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 5 April 1935, Page 8

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PERSONALITIES of the week Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 5 April 1935, Page 8

PERSONALITIES of the week Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 5 April 1935, Page 8

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