ORPHEUS MUSICAL SOCIETY.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 132, 30 November 1929, Page 14

ORPHEUS MUSICAL SOCIETY.

On Thursday evening next, Oth December the Orpheus Musical Society present their final Chamber, Town Ha"k "he^fljst part ofTh! programme will be of a miscellaneous nature and the assisting artists will be Mrs. T. Watson, Miss Js'gaire Coster, Messrs. Harry Matthew, Lea Bothwell, and Billy Harris. The choir will sing two part-songs, "Sleep, Gentle Lady" (Bishop) and "Welcome-to May" (founded on the "Bees Wedding"), by Mendelssohn "The Peasant Cantata," by J. S. Bach, will occupy, the second part of the programme. This cantata is full of delightful chorus and solo numbers. Miss Alma Clegg,. soprano, will be heard In Happy is That Land" and "Of Flowers the Fairest," which should prove two very pleasing numbers. Mr. Ray Kemp's bass solos include "Of the Factor You Had Best Beware." "Fifty Florins Seem-a Lot," and "Good Fellows, Be Merry." .This work has never beforo been performed In Wellington, and has only twice previously been given in New Zealand. "The Peasant Cantata" was written and performed In 1742 as an act of homage to Carl Heihrich yon Dleshau on his becoming "Lord of Manor." The libretto deals with the rejoicings of the villagers and their congratulations and good wishes to their new lord and his wife. Many folk melodies are introduced, and most of the numbers are based on merry dance tunes. Miss Hazel Howe, L.A.8., L.T C L as usual, will be the accompanistc, and Mr. Harison Cook the conductor. The box plan is at the. Bristol.