MUSIC.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 19 August 1911, Page 10

MUSIC.

j . (By TntDi-E Clef J

The Quinlan Opera-Company. The back pago of Sousa's'programme tells us mere tho.n we have hitherto learned of the Qumlau Grand Opera Company which-is to , visit Australia next year. Tho principals, are-to-be-Jladames Lalla Miranda, Bettina; Freomali, Mignon Nevada, -Edna Thornton, Muriel "•' Terry, Messrs. John Coatcs, Byndon Ayres, Clarence Whitehill, Harry Dearth, and Charles M'GraUi. . The repertoire, which is to bo sung in English, will include the following operas: —"Carmen," "Tristanand Isolde," "Tiuinhau<er," "La Boheme," "Lohengrin," "Hansel and Grctel," "Madame Butterfly," "Tho Valkyrie," "Tales of Hoffman " "Aidn," "L'Enfant Prodigue, "Faust," and Puccini's "The Girl of the Golden West." . Something Like a ; Choir. Something has been already said of the imisic pc.rfurme.lL at tho..Coronation, and now the '.'Musical Times" of July publishes the names of all who MM m the choir oii the'historic'occasion, -bir I'k. Bridge, conducted an orchestra ot (jb p'avers. with Mr. W- Short, an. adjudicator'at the Haliarat Eisteddfod about two vears f.gb, and a subsequent visitor to this city, as principal trumpeter, lhere wero 198 boys iu tho choir, 106 tenors, and 160 basses, including a score of concert soloist-, of note. Two ladies only, .Miss M. Bridge slid Mrs. Edward Stainer, were allowed in as members of the choir of St. "Margaret's Church, Westminster. Qiieen Victoria's Coronation Choir included tho best sopranos and contraltos from tl-o Royal Academy of Music students-a fact known to the present writer, because Iwo of them, ono of whom is now US vears of age, and actively intent upon reeordiu" her "century." were his mother s o-.t--r«. Our visitor of eight years ago, Mr. Edward Lloyd, sang a tfuor solo in Bride's anthem "with much warmth, having emerged from his retirement lor (ho occasion'." No doubt there was a ttrugglo on tho part ot celebrities lo see the Coronation by 301111115 tho i-iicir. We find Mr. Bon D.ivies (now on'his way here wit.U Mirs Lftta d Argo) in (ho list; also Jnliu Coates. due hero next year with Lalla Miranda and the Quiulan Grand Opera. Company; A\il win (irceii, who supported Mine. Albani hero durin" her second tour; Barton M'Giickiu a fine tenor, whose voice had aj-re-idv 11-arly left him when ho was hero wi'th Jlnie. Amy Shcnvin, moro than a decade past; Samuel Masters, who came here with tho late Mme. Alva and Adela Verne; and Cliark-s Sanmlcrs, who revisited Australia, last year, but Rot 110 further ■than Melbourne. In all UiK-o names Australians will take interest, he list of ba*s choristers mcliukd .Hatkiii Mills a great favourite on this side; 14:. fiainiow, here with Mclba three years n"o; Edmund Burke, tho Coveiit Garden In-* now due in Sydney for (ho Melba season- and Sir F. 11. Cowcn. who conducted tl'n Melbourne Exhibition Orchcs-(ra'voar.-i ago, as woll as a season of or-che-lril concerts in Sydney. ])r. Laloii Fming, composer, and the musical critic iif the "Times," were amongst the basses, and 11 rhce wai found lor the once noted tenor Or- W. H. Cinmiiins. lately princiral of the Guildhall School of Music, now nearly SO years of age, bill who w«s himself at ono time a singer at the Vbbev Probably the mast wonderful thing about the publiihod lift ib."iiol tli« "names iucjudpd, but-tlioM loft outi