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Early
sources
Matangi - Ana Hato, 78 rpm Parlophone recording 1927, during the Royal Visit of the Duke of York (later George VI) to Rotorua for the unveiling of a WW1 memorial to 'the Arawas.'
Matangi
and E Te Arawa Tirohia Ra
Two NZ pieces published in the newspaper called 'New Zealand Pictorial News'
on 1 Sept 1928.
They
are arranged by Hemi Piripata (Jim Phillpot).
Matangi
- Love Ditty - in the book "Ten Maori Songs" c1939
Arranged by Hemi Piripata (James H Phillpot, an Auckland church organist,
d, 1937)
Published by Chas Beggs.
The song is © 1930 to Arthur Eady Ltd, Queen St, Auckland
with the copyright assigned to Chas Beggs (Aust) in 1939.
It says
"Available on Columbia Record DO-59 and Parlophone A 2803."
Sam
McGredy's Matangi rose
Dr. Samuel McGredy was a renowned rose breeder in Northern Ireland, just like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him. In 1970 he heard Inia Te Wiata singing Matangi, a song that captured the Maori emotion Sam was so fond of, and which influenced him to move to New Zealand not long afterwards.
It seemed
to him appropriate that he recognise this song in his first important
New Zealand rose, hence Matangi became the name that marked the beginning
of Sam McGredy's New Zealand era. The Matangi rose was extremely popular,
quickly becoming one of the top five in the Rose Society lists, and keeping
its place there for ten years.
It is a "hand-painted" florabunda, with a changeable coloring
of vermillion softened by pink.
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Published on the web 15 July 2006