The Payne Family.

Manawatu Herald, 9 November 1893, Page 2

The Payne Family.

All lovers of good music will learn with pleasure that the above talented family will give a concert at the Public Hall on Wednesday next. Each time they have appeared here they have been greeted with crowded houses, so that a repetition is only what is to be expected.

The Hobart Mercury of last February says :— After an absence of nearly two years the Payne Family renewed their acquaintance with Hobart last night, giving one of their clever entertainments at the Town Hall. The boisterous weather had no apparent effect on the attendance, for scarcely a vacant seat was visitJp. Large and appreciative audiences, by the way, are what the Paynes are accustomed to face from one end of the Australian colonies to the other. Indeed, their .performance last night was quite equal to any previous effort. The programme was lengthy and varied enough to satisfy the most fastidious, oven in these days when the popular taste demands so much in the way of light amusement. There is no attempts to wander into the higher flights of classical music on the part of the Paynes ; they hold hard and fast to the popular, and their .abihty to touch the sentiments 6f*i lirge audiences by charmingly' rendering the most simple airs was demonstrated last night, when many found themselves involuntarily accompanying the performers. From the opening chorus,, perfpi'mera. Ar^tefeiners were on good -tetfiina and the bright vivaciiotis(6|Jtpiainment sparkled merrily alotkg H° the end. It was the music of "the bells that captivated, however. In the manipulation of a hundr^ bifvinore bells the company are very clever. Each selection was eneojted Vociferously, though four appeared in the programme. The best- iism in campanology waa .-QmT^ Signal Maich," the ringing of which with a muffled refrain, producing the effect of chimes in the dig&nee, for graduation of tone and other quali* ties was excellent. The ; Payne Family give another entertainment at the Town Hall to-night.