EMPIRE MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 793, 16 April 1910, Page 14

EMPIRE MUSIC.

DR. CHARLES HARBISS'S SCHEME. The London "Evening Standard," in an issue just to hand, thus speaks of Dr. Charles Harriss and his world tour of the Sheffield Choir :—

"It • is not a little ■in tho spirit of thoso old, bold rovers like Drake, Hawkins, and Frobisher that 200 members of the Sheffield Choir, under the leadership of an adventurous Canadian, will embark for their sis months' tour round the world. Much good was done by the York Choir which three or four years ago visited Dusseldorf and other great German towns, and wherever they wont created. a bond ■ of musical sympathy. Much good will be done by these beautiful voices from Yorkshire when they chant in the cities of our brothers across the ocean the last fight of Sir Richard Grenville in the 'Revenge,' or give them a hint,'of the maiuy vigour that, still thrills in Old England's veins when the "north-east wind" blows through Cliffe's music. It would be difficult to find a better way of renewing the tie between, the Mother Country ■ and her children till we realise again "Deeper .than Death our Love, Stronger than Life our Tether.'"

Not 'content witih any. written or cabled assurances of goodwill, Dr." Harriss, with his accustomed energj and thoroughness, has'visited the various countries of the Empire himself to ascertain tie true feeHnp; towards his idea and to bow the seed of artistic union. On every side he found not only a passive, but an astonishingly active interest m his plnne. On his return to England, Dr. Harms stated to a Liverpool "Courier" interviewer that the festival would be inaugurated by the visit to Canada of the Sheffield Choir, numbering about 200 members. They would go on to Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and South Africa, then back Home, making a circuit of the : colonies;