MALE CHOIR

Evening Star, Issue 19660, 13 September 1927, Page 3

MALE CHOIR

[t is freely admitted that compositions arranged for male choirs arc exceedingly varied in nature, dealing as they dp'ip descriptive manner of stirring episodes over tlie centuries.. Prac- ' tically all countries feature their folk (W;Sigs in compositions for male voices, ’aivd many have only been retained to posterity through the medium of the strolling bards and minstrels of bygone days. Perhaps it is because of the wide range of subjects and the different forms of musical composition that has made male part singing so popular and enduring throughout the world, and enabled organisations such as the Dunedin Male Choir to gain m strength, as the years go by. The part songs to be given by the choir at its concert to-morrow will bo both old and new, grave and gay, and on subjects as varied as it is possible to have them. Vocal solos will be given, by Miss Mcda Paine, Messrs J. T. Anderson. and R. Martindale, vocal duets by Messrs A. Walmsley and J. G. Clark, ’cello solos by Miss Noel O’Kane,. who recently returned from a course of studies at the Consorvatorinm of Music at Sydney. Mr Chas. A. Martin will bo the accompanist. The public should be seated before 8 o’clock, as the concert will commence punctually. \