Diana Said Takieddine — The Poet-Musician!

Her melodies rang out from "West Hall" last month, and everyone with any share of musical culture, or any taste for it, heard her or heard her name... She is Diana Said Takieddine, the dark-eyed girl who, though she has not yet passed her fifteenth year, has soared high in the skies of fine music.

Diana was born in the Philippines, and began to play the piano while she was still a child. She studied diligently for four years under the Spanish musician Victorina Lopecad. And since her return to her homeland, Lebanon, three months ago, she has been continuing her lessons at the musical institute attached to the American University of Beirut.

Diana is in truth one of our gifted girls: besides her genius in music, she has inherited literary taste from her father, the gifted man of letters, and she composes poetry in English, which she has mastered... She is now hard at work learning the Arabic language and aspires to reach a high level in it.

Diana practices the piano eight hours a day. She studies and she composes! She has so far composed twelve complete musical pieces, the most important of which, in her eyes, is "The Lebanese Song." And Diana, apart from these artistic gifts, has a beautiful voice and inclines toward setting Arabic songs to music, so that her melodies come out with a beautiful Western color. She has succeeded in setting to music some of the verses from the play "A Handful of Wind." She loves her country Lebanon, and above all its natural scenery, and has no wish to leave it from this day on.

The Woman's Voice wishes this brilliant musician a dazzling future worthy of her lofty gifts.