MALE VOICE CHOIR

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 303, 16 September 1920, Page 8

MALE VOICE CHOIR

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS AT THE TOWN HALL. Tho war really discovered the commercial travellers of this community to be dauntless in accomplishing any task they set. their hands to. Their frequent efforts in aid of war funds brought them out into the open and made them an entity to be reckoned with in more ways than one. After war, tho travellers naturally looked for ways and means of expressing themselves in tho blessed days of peace, and being harmonious in temperament they turned to harmony. So the Travellers' Male Voice Choir, which gave a most enjoyable concert in the Town Hall last evening, came into being. Under Mr. H. Temple White the choir has made more than local fame, and its nicely-modulated efforts last evening showed their vocal goods to bo "right up to sample." The part songs rendered were Abt's "Laughing," "The Chapel" (Krcutzer), "What Oaro I How Pair She Bo" (Tjlumonthal). "A Franklyn'o Doggc" (A. C. M'Kcnzie), 'The Beleaguered" (Sullivan), "O Peaceful Night" (German), and the rousing "Soldiers' Chorus," from Gounod's "Faust." Tho lady soloist of the evening was Miss Helen Gard'ner, a charming and finished 6oprano of whom too little is heard in Wellington. She sanjr with fine artistry "The Poet's Life," and for an encore "Homing" (Teresa, del Riego). and Alma Needham s charming song, "Good-bye to Childhood." which earned, as a recall Sanderson's nuaint, ballad ''Bogies." Mr' S. R. Allwrieht sanE "Pagan" (Lohr) Mr' Leigh Dew attuned his light tenor to the tender croon of "Home, Little Maori" (Alfred Hill), and Mr. Frank Charles's rnoust bass-baritone answered to the do mands of Sergeant's setting of "Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind." The Melody Four also obliged with numbers grave and gay. Mr. White conducted with his accustomed care, and Mr. Harold Whittlepresided at the pianoforte.