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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==
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		+	[[Hilde Roos]]. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. [[Stellenbosch University]].

	[[Hilde Roos]]. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).		[[Hilde Roos]]. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1943), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943) and ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946).
+Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1943), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943), ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946), ''[[A Bowl of Constantia Red]]''.
 Hallis composed the scores to two films by Alfred Hitchcock: ''Rich and Strange'' (1931) and ''Number Seventeen'' (1932)

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1946), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943) and ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946).
+Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1943), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943) and ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946).
 Hallis composed the scores to two films by Alfred Hitchcock: ''Rich and Strange'' (1931) and ''Number Seventeen'' (1932)

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 == Sources ==
-Hilde Roos. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).
+[[Hilde Roos]]. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).
 N. William Snedden. 'A Portrait of the Pianist Adolph Hallis (1896-1987)'. http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Aug/Hallis_article.pdf

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 == Biography ==
-Born 4 July 1896 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to Joseph Hallis (c.1866-1939, a general merchant from Austria) and Clara Hallis née Lilien (c.1868-1942 from Poland). Parents take him to Vienna aged seven where he studies for two years with Paula Szalit (c.1886-1920, a pupil of Leschetizky). Public debut playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto K466 aged eight. Returns to South Africa taking further lessons from pianist and borough organist of Port Elizabeth [[Roger Ascham]] (1864-1934). Awarded overseas scholarship from the University Cape of Good Hope, studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under Oscar Beringer (1844-1922, a pupil of Moscheles and Tausig). Performs in Duke Hall RAM November 19137 and in Nottingham June 1914. Awarded Challen & Son gold medal (1914), Philip L. Agnew prize, Frederick Westlake prize and Alexander Roller prize (all for piano, 1915); also awarded Battison Haynes prize for composition. Returns to South Africa for the duration of WW1 teaching at [[South African College of Music]] under its principal Professor [[William Henry Bell]] (1873-1946).
+Born 4 July 1896 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to Joseph Hallis (c.1866-1939, a general merchant from Austria) and Clara Hallis née Lilien (c.1868-1942 from Poland). Parents take him to Vienna aged seven where he studies for two years with Paula Szalit (c.1886-1920, a pupil of Leschetizky). Public debut playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto K466 aged eight. Returns to South Africa taking further lessons from pianist and borough organist of Port Elizabeth [[Roger Ascham]] (1864-1934). Awarded overseas scholarship from the University Cape of Good Hope, studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under Oscar Beringer (1844-1922, a pupil of Moscheles and Tausig). Performs in Duke Hall RAM November 1913 and in Nottingham June 1914. Awarded Challen & Son gold medal (1914), Philip L. Agnew prize, Frederick Westlake prize and Alexander Roller prize (all for piano, 1915); also awarded Battison Haynes prize for composition. Returns to South Africa for the duration of WW1 teaching at [[South African College of Music]] under its principal Professor [[William Henry Bell]] (1873-1946).
 Returns to London in 1919 studying with Tobias Matthay (1858-1945, a pupil of Sullivan, Sterndale Bennett and Prout). Gives solo and chamber recitals in London (Wigmore Hall debut 1919), Paris, and throughout Europe, accompanying the Belgian violinist Andre Polah in 1921.8 Meets the French painter Chantal Quenneville whilst in Paris, marrying her in 1921 (see her biography which immediately follows). Gives a recital of works by British composers in the Victoria Rooms, Bristol, during 1922. Broadcasts on BBC radio from 1925 playing with the Music Society String Quartet and Samuel Kutcher’s String Quartet, both of which included John Barbirolli as cellist10. Joins the staff of Matthay’s London piano school during the following year. Performs with the distinguished American concert violinist Viola Mitchell11 and the French cellist Jacques Serrès before touring Europe for a year (c.1929) partnering Josef Szigeti.

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	N. William Snedden. 'A Portrait of the Pianist Adolph Hallis (1896-1987)'. http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Aug/Hallis_article.pdf		N. William Snedden. 'A Portrait of the Pianist Adolph Hallis (1896-1987)'. http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Aug/Hallis_article.pdf
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	Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1946), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943) and ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946).		Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1946), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943) and ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946).
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		+	Hallis composed the scores to two films by Alfred Hitchcock: ''Rich and Strange'' (1931) and ''Number Seventeen'' (1932)

	==Awards, honours==		==Awards, honours==

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	Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1946), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943) and ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946).		Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1946), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943) and ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946).
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	==Awards, honours==		==Awards, honours==

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 * Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music (1950);
-* An honour award from the [[Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns-Erepenning]] vir Musiek in Stellenbosch on the occasion of his 70th birthday (1966);
+* An honour award from the [[Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns]] - Erepenning vir Musiek in Stellenbosch on the occasion of his 70th birthday (1966);
 * The degree of Doctor of Music Honoris Causa from the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] (1975).

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	Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1946), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943) and ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946).		Operas composed by Hallis include ''[[Jakaranda]]'' (1946), ''[[Port of Call]]'' (1943) and ''[[Love is Gold]]'' (1946).
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		+	==Awards, honours==
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		+	* Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music (1950);
		+	* An honour award from the [[Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns-Erepenning]] vir Musiek in Stellenbosch on the occasion of his 70th birthday (1966);
		+	* The degree of Doctor of Music Honoris Causa from the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] (1975).

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==