JOHN M'CORMACK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1333, 10 January 1912, Page 6

JOHN M'CORMACK.

"A concert like that given by Mr. John M'Cormaek and his company in the Exhibition Building last night (says the Melbourne "Argus' of January 2), docs not need a lengthened notice, because it inny bo described in a single phraso as on unbroken succession of numbers of supreme excellence. Karely indeed has such, a fiuo company delighted a Melbourne audience as that which appeared last night. There was not an uninteresting or a perfunctory number on the programme. The audience was • worthy- oi' this company, and filled the Exhibition Building from end to end. A feature common to all tLo singers was the clearness of their articulation; every word could bs heard without an effort, and yot there was not tho slightest loss of tone or quality. It will savo needless repetition to say that everv number was encored, and some of them three and even four times. Mr MXhrmack was most busy with the rolo so congenial to an Irishman, of a tender lover. His first bracket was of -fhrto Irish love songs, supplemented by Uevlil's ''For You Alone" and the old ""Drink."to Me Only.' 1-hon came -Landon Ronald's "I S«ir.V u l f\"]K ■,sfe," and Romas Jhiukin? ot rhco'j and in tho last bracket Tom Mooro's "Bolievo Me if all Those Endearing Young Charms,"- Robiiisons 'hnowy-breasted Pearl," with "Kathleen Mavourneen' and Blumenthal's dood .Night as nendahts. Two' exceptions only lent variety to his clioW-'-tho ever popular Iwllnrney," ami, in shocking inconsistency with all the rest, "La I)onim e Mobile! Tenderness, sweetness pathos, impassioned pleading wore tli'p. prevailing features of all his songs, and in each his glorious voice ind citinUifolv pure intonation were a fr.vh pleasure. His secona register , was most effectively employed, and he ended his last song will] a unique trill on high A flat and G. The enthusiasm of the audience knew no bounds, and after his last encore, Mr M Corm.ack received an ovation from tho vn*t crowd of which any man might be proud. '

Mr. M'Cormnck, who will 1,0 nssishvl lir Mips Rosina Bnckmann, Mr. Alfred Kanf maun, and Mr. Spencer Clay («010 pinnv=t,). will five a Brand concert at the Town nail on Fridnv ovcnhi" &>,fc mny be reserved at the Dresden . "