COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS’ CHOIR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 266, 4 August 1921, Page 6

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS’ CHOIR

SUCCESSFUL REPEAT CONCERT. The “repeat" concert given in the Town Hall Concert Chamber last evening by the Commercial Travellers’ Mala Voice Choir was equally as successful as the one tendered on Saturday evening. Recently the choir has improved greatly under the able oonductordilp of Mr. H. Temple White, and every number presented met with warm and genuine applause. There was scarcely a number that was not encored, the audience being large and appreciative. Miss Mabellc Esquilant, with her wonderfully rich contralto. roused the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm in several solos, included among which were Coleridge Taylor’s "Life and Death,” "Dawn," and "Down the Shallow River.” One of the soloists who did not perform at Saturday’s concert was Mr. F. V. Blandford, who sang with great feeling Noel Johnson’s "If Thou Wert Blind.” He is the possessor of a melodious though faltering tenon. As ap encore he,sung the ever popular "Songs of Araby.” Mr. A. Maves was to the foa-o with * The Blind Ploughman" (Conyngsby Clarke), and as his enooro numbers sang "The Lute Player” and "Old Barty." Ducts by Messrs. C. A. Williams and W. J. Robbins were popular, and the. Melody Four sang well. Included in tho encores to the choral numbers was that beautiful work of Elgar, "It’s Oh, to be a Wild Wtad." The concert was altogether mosh enjoyable.