TE RANCI PAI.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1739, 3 May 1906, Page 3

TE RANCI PAI.

•'A MEJOIUBLE EVENT,

Fow communities are accorded the ‘privilege of welooming one of their nativoborn who has attainod such high rank in the musioal world aa Te RaDgi Pai, whose return to Gisborne after an absence of seven years is an event of no small importance. The oareer of this talentod aongatreaa haa been followed with interest by many in our midst. Tutored by the Sahlley, the world’s foremost bariand by that eminont master of oratorio, Dr Churchill Sibley, of London, Te Rafcgi Pai, whoso magnifioeDt contralto voice made her auch a warm favorito with Gisborno audiences prior to hor departure, rapidly acquired the oulturo and artialio finish that ace essential to auccosa in that most critical of musical oeutros, London, where out of the many thousands who aspire to fame, so fow rise to the top. That To Rangi Pai has achieved a it a ling position amongst England’s groat singors is provod by tbo Uo'.teriag criticisms that havo boon acoordod hor by tbo London Dross, the popularity sho has attained at publio and private recitals, and by the fact that sho has appeared on a number of notable occasions at eoncoris, on tha programmes of which the natnos of the moßt omineDt artists appoir. Siceo hor return to tbo land of hor birth, To Rangi Pai haß delighted largo audienoa in the Bouthorn oontrea with tho qual ty of her voice, and the public of her nativo town Will, doubtless, gladly avail thsmselves of tbo opportunity of judging tbo strides she ’""|iaß token in her mus cjl oduoatioo.