GIFTED CONTRALTO.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 15 November 1930, Page 3

GIFTED CONTRALTO.

STELLA MURRAY. MONDAY'S SONG RECITAL. The programme to be given -by Miss SteJla Murray, the New Zealand contialto; at her song recital at the Civic "Theatre, at 8.15 P-tti-, on Monday, is one of the most interesting that has ever teen offered to a concert audience in Chrotchurch. The aongs embrace those of the old as well as B °bools, and Miss Murray's method of grouping her numbers adds interest to the programme, which is done entirely m- English. She has made a very •close study of her songs and she seeks to make the .story, as she sings, a very vital thing. J? or her interpretative ability in this respect, aa veil as for her great artistry, Miss Murray has been acclaimed by the critics as a great singer. Among the more descriptive songs for her recital on Moifaay roay be mentioned "The Dreary Steppe" tt TTri}f S8 * an composer Gretchaninov, c , °" 8 "The Gardener," Mallinson's We Sway Along" and "Ave Maria" A. Horne. In addition to a liberal. offermg of programme numbers running to a score of songs, Miss Murray will include among encores some more popular songs, m aIJ of which her standard of artistry" runs on a, very'high plane. Miss Murray will be assisted bv MrS r^r^- / rdoD (violinist), Mr Arthur Lilly, A.-h.G.O. (organist), and Miss Aileen War-? ren will be at the piano. /. The box rflan is at The Bristol.'