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BALLAD CONCERT

IN AID OF THE HUNTLY DISASTER Whilst Mr. Walter Kirby is deserving of all credit for organising the concert given in aid of tho Huntly Disaster Fund, it is to be regretted that the public failed to respond in anything like the measure due to the object. It < may be that the calls on the people's purse, having been •unusually heavy of late, accounted for the attenuated audience, but such an interesting concert certainly justified more generous patronago. Mr. Kirby, who was in excellent voice, endorsed tho 'opinion that he is one of the best ballad tenors beard in Wellington for some considerable' time. His numbers alone provided a veritablo 'feast of song. In the first part ho gave a very porfect reading of. Blumeiithal's "Evening Song," gave very sweet expression to that delightful song,'"l'll Sing Thee SoDgs of Araby," and to everyone's joy saug the prologuo to "I Pagliacci" '(Leoncavallo). His passionate emotionalism and meaniuglul interuretation of this number induced such hearty and sustained applause that ho had to respond with "Tho Bolls of Shandon" (an adaptation of tho traditional Irish air which Flotow introduced into his opera, "Martha,"' under the title of "The Last Rose of Summer")- In the second half Mr. Kirby sang "Angels. Guard TKe'e" • (Lardi), "Mother Machree," "I Hear A r ou Calling Mo," "We'll Know, We'll Understand;" and was associated with Mr. F. Bourko in a .very.telling rendition of the duet:between Marcel and Rudolf from Act II of "La Boheme.' r Mr. Bourke's dramatic temperament and resonant baritone were exhibited with excellent effect in "When Snadows Gather," "Molly Bawn," "If I Were King," and VMacuslila." The lady soloists were Mies Frances Barry and Miss Eileen. Driscoll. The former has a mezzo voice of good quality, affected last evening by a vibrato born of "nerves." She sang "Beloved, It Is Morn" (Aylward), and received an encouraging encore. Miss Driscoll was recalled for "A Summer Night" (Goring Thomas), and responded, with a sunny little song of Arcady. Mr. A. P. Truda, the accomplished flautist, played "Suom d'Argento very sweetly, and Miss Mona Moore played as pianoforte soli Chopin'e "Polonaise in 0 Sharp Minor" and Edward MacDowell's "Sea Song", and "Hexentanz," tho latter a brilliantly irdiscent composition of high quality. Mrs. E. H. Quereo accompanied with her usual ability. The audience included His Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool, . ; .

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2283, 17 October 1914, Page 4

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BALLAD CONCERT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2283, 17 October 1914, Page 4

BALLAD CONCERT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2283, 17 October 1914, Page 4

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