ANTONIA DOLORES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2145, 11 May 1914, Page 3

ANTONIA DOLORES

- —~-^_ —_ ■ FOUKT.H SOJtG RECITAL ' Saturday's. pMgrajnmij at the Grand ■Opera House was the choicest of Mdllc. Aatonia Dolores's .brief season'in Wellington, and left many sweet memories ni a charming concert., Mdlte. Mores, who gives one the impression that she is never bo happy .as wlicn ■ smgjng 3 almost doubled the number of songs -oil tho sheet, and still the audience'wa*; hungry for more,- B was with ea«<?r ■pleasure thafoae heard this artist interpret tho "King of Tirtilo" legend, ■itnd "Jewel Song" fronv Oomtod's "Faust." She took the scone from its i opening recitative "J. Vi'ish 1 Could But j Know,"_ and gase adfiiirabfo expiressi«m to tho douMe thought rfttui'iijg ifl Marguerite's mind as 5110 sits at tlm spinning wheel oreoiiiug the old logend ' aboiit the King of Thiik Mdilo. has • hardly tho tonal.-brilliance to do ftsil |- justice to the "Jewel Song"—it calk for a pure irrie ;siiprand., whilst Mdllc's | voice is distinctly mezzo in text-tire (as ! was her distinguished ■'mother's, Madame Trebelli Hcttmi), hit her in-1 terpretation, was cxtjumely interesting, The scona : \vns in the original French, which is infinitely -to bo jjreferred to. the dtaiiisy Eugjish if the j translation. As a:ii encore, she sang a charming song by Massenet, tlm French composer, wlioso recent.death in Paris T caused great lamentation throughout j tho nation.- The same composer was ] selected by Ut. John Proiise, wli&se aria "Promesse do Mon Avir, , ' from tho * op«a "The King of Lahore," did not, when robbo.d of its setting, prove a re-fy attractive concert iteffl. The siivgor. too, was siipcr-emoticnal, oven io tile disturbance of trwo pitcli. Mdilo. Dolores's second bracket consisted of Schubert's "Auf dem Wassor 2u Singcn," and theold i'avoHrite "Who is Sylvia?" "The Tear" (Rubinstein) fttid' "Songs Bty Mother Taught Mo". {Dvorak). In response to an insistent "bis/ , and to tto delight of all, Sidlle. seated, her- '. srff ottho piaitoforte, and saiig 6-rieg's "Solyoig's Sour," with a delicacy ,wd ' tounl purity that gave an. atmosphere : ' to its melancholy beauty. Still another : recall produced the same Norwegian composer's arresting song "First Meeting." In tho second half Mffllo. Ooteres sang tho "Prayer" from Puccitti's opera !V La Tosca," and, encored, Foote's i'VMicfi.il "Irish Folk Son!?. ,: For lierftnal bra.c]vot, the singer barked back to the old English of Jain-.es Itoolc and Bislie-j). Hook _ flourished towards the end of tho eighteenth century, and his compositions wre much faroared at tho gaieties of Hichnaond, Kanel-agh, ami Vauxitall. He was a good melodist, and an iiigEnimjs song-writer, »vi)ieh was evidenced in "0 Listen to the Voice of Love" and "Echo, fell Me," both of which were charmingly sang... Bishop > was realty the successor to. Hook, Only ten years separatee! their regimes at Vatoxhall, and both wero very talemtet! and prolific song-writers. Bishop's "Love Has Eyes" is an old fcivaiirito, and it" was'song with roguish insinuation. To the Jo.v of all, M-dlfc. r-eturli-ed I to t-h©- stage t<) dispense Jkpiid s-ui-isliine i in Auber's "Langhrag Song," end in ■ ? ■still further response to prolonged ap- ' pJuusn, sang "Home, Sweet jHouiis."Mr, John Frousc gave spirited teal- : ity to tlje retßgcd poetry of Kerba.y's .' Hungarian folS lore ' song "Had ■ ~ a Horse,' , as an encore to the Massone-t B.ria, and also sang "Hear Mo, Yβ ■ Winds a.ncl Waves" (Saiitffcl), and. in inpnioriftra to the late Signor Tito Mattei, that convwoser's 0 ■ Vcjr" ! and "Oh, Hera the Wild Wimls 810w. ,, As an cnpQvo lie sang Alfred Hill's set* tinp: of TeniKson's ftocm "Mv Fairest Child.' , " Stiss Tris d> fia.iras'Rcfii? gavo 011(lorsensent to tiie npinioii already Jiold <if her pjaying that Aho is an artist in t!|ij itiakini; by Iwr snivitetl- reii«lin« of I.isrA's "Kbapsotlio" {X-o. 12), for whichslit tt-as warmly encored.