THE JUBILEE SINGERS.
This popular and talented company appear at the Opera House to-night. Referring to their first entertainment the Westport Times says The programme was a capital one, and the performers wore repeatedly recalled by
the enthusiastic audience. The plantation songs and choruses were well given, and the beauty of the cultivated voices was fully demonstrated, Mr Eugene McAdoo, Mr B. H Collins, Miss Belle Gibbons,’ Miss Daz'alia Underwood, and Mrs M.' Webster each secured deserved encored for the solos sung; Gatise, the male mezzo-soprano, fairly captivated the audience, and he had to reappear several times in answer to the enthusiasm he aroused in the audience. Miss Belle Gibbons fine baritone voice was illustrated in the solo “ The Holy City.” Prof. C. A. While contributed the pianoforte solos 11 Spinning Song ” and “ The Witches’ Dance." and his execution of these pieces elicited very hearty applause. The former piece was composed by Blind Boone, America’s Black Chopin, and is a weird, sad melody while the second num- W bor, by William Vincent Wallace, and Ji re-arranged by Amy Fay, is a bright and cheerful piece. A rich programme concluded with the favorite glee “ Sweet and Low.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 March 1901, Page 2
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196THE JUBILEE SINGERS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 March 1901, Page 2
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