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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 84, 3 January 1920, Page 5

i y P'?' ,Pf. nin Song-Service" Trill.bc held at the T.IV.C.A. on Thursday cven,n.y; "'lien the beautiful camp 'hymns w:Il be sung, and special parte rendcrerh by several of the camper/;. Music' ivo.« part of _ tho joy of the camp-v.-eelc, and the desire is to givo it expression in this mul-wcfrk serviced ! Tho repertoire of tho Williamson Grand Oncra Company stiH includes one novoJtv for Now Zealand opora-lovora in (lounoti's "Romeo and Juliet," which has not rot been performed on I his sido of the Tasman Sea. This i„ a five-act opera based upon tho Shakespearean tracredv. and was composed by Charles (Vminod at the height of his pouovs— whon ho was forty-nine yours of arc Tho opera (thn libretto of which was ndattted l:v Jules Ilerbier and Michel Carre) includes many exquisite numbers of which Oueen Mab\s son;?, t.ho waltz sonar of Juliet, tho beautiful balcony duet, the duel Mene, and the song are brilliant numbers'. Tho performance of a comparatively unknown opera- (in New Zealand) * by (ho composer of "Faust" amounts to an event in the musical history of the Dominion.