MOZART'S 'REQUIEM'

Evening Star, Issue 23374, 18 September 1939, Page 2

MOZART'S 'REQUIEM'

TO-MORROW NIGHT'S PERFORMANCE Indications are that to-morrow night’s presentation of Mozart’s Requiem Mass will be a successful and satisfying one, for it is a work that the Choral Society has previously performed. In times such as this, the appeal of great music is obvious, and there are few more beautiful works than this Requiem Mass, composed amid great poverty in the last year of Mozart’s life, and completed by, his pupil, Sussmayer. The choir can be relied upon to give musieianly interpretations of the magnificent choruses with which tlie Mass abounds, especially the ‘Dies Irae ’ (Day of Vengeance), the powerful 1 Lacrimosa,’ and the triumphant ‘ Hostias ’ (‘ Offering of Prayer and Praise AVe Bring to Thee ’). The soloists will be Miss Doris Wilson, soprano, Miss Alison Tyrie, contralto, Mr Cedric Wallis, tenor, and Mr Russell Laurcnson, baritone, and the orchestra will be specially organised on the scale of Mozart’s instrumentation. In addition the choir, which is being conducted by Mr Alfred Walmsley. will sing two interesting part songs by Dunedin misicians—Mary Martin’s ‘ Lacking Samite and Sable,’ and the delightful ‘ Shepherdess,’ of Professor V. E. Galway. There are to be three magnificent operatic choruses of Handel, which have been sepecially adapted by Sir Henry Wood, and also two folk songs. Mr Laurcnson, the baritone soloist iu the Mass, will also be beard in the aria. ‘ Erl Tu,’ from Verdi’s opera, ‘Un Balia in Maschora.’ A ladies’ double trio, the Castalinn Singers, will given an item. Booking arrangements are advertised.