HASTINGS ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 13, 8 October 1937, Page 7

HASTINGS ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY.

Concert Next Monday Night At Gie concert to be given by the Hastings Orchestral Society riext

Monday evening in the Municipm Theatre, thei publio will hear one of the most entertaining programmes that the society has presented for some time. The programme opens with the old favourite, "Merry Wives of Windsor," an overture which is famous throughoufc the world. This wiH be followed by a vocal solo, "Moon of My Delight," from "A Persian G arden," by Mr. E. G. Stevenson, the popnlar Napier tenor. Then will be heard .a suit© of "Three African Dances," by Montague Ring. In this very descriptive suite the musi; of the three movements "Call to the Feast," "Luletas Dance" and "Warriors' Dance" seems to carry the listener right into the heart of Africa. The fourth item is a song by the Napier I male quartet. The first part of the j programme concludeis with .whai will I probably prove to be the most popnlar I item played. This is a suite of four '

classics, Momenf Musical, by Fr. Shubert, Prelude in C, by Oiopin, a dajnty number of only 32 bars; Valse in A, by Brahms, and Polonaise in A, by Chopin, a pieqe well known as a piano solo. The orchesstra will open the second part of jts programme with Carl Friedman's Slavonic Rbapsody, a rhapsody which, like Liszt's Hxmgarian rhapsodies, is constructed on the folk tunes of the Slav. Mr. Stevenson will render the song, "Spirit Flower." The orchestra will also be heard in twelve numbers from the popular musical comody, "Maid of the Mountains." > Tho Napier male quartet will render a number from their extensiv© repertoire. The programme concludes with the Grand March from Tannhauser, a number too well-known to need any comment.