Radcliff-Rita Concert.
The . iladcliff-JElita Company, opened , m the Foresters' Hall lasfreTening, <; to .a fairly good house, the numerous entertainments lately ' Palin'erston; jho -doubt having had the effect of lessening the attendance. However, an appreciative" house enjoyed a musical treat which seldom; falls ; to the t lot of country-town audiences. Tlie concert' throughout was a performance at once cJlassicalj refined and popular m the highest degree 1 . As a master flautist, Mr Radpliff, we should . say, has not an equal. We do not inj tend \q enumerate-the tec^nipal tgrujs an.*; plicabje to t?)e"beautifui manipulation q£ the flpte as played by this great artist, \ and Avill simply rpfer. to some ,of the most notable'itemg' rendered. In the first partlof the programme Mr RadclinTs ex- . ecution of "Variety on Scotch Airs "was a. musical gem rendered with a peculiar expressiveness only capable'of bsing produced'hya faster njind. ; The of|the ttiite '^nd. voipe. iii itr\e qun>ber^ "which f ollpMre.4 \yq,B perhajps tjie sweetest secular music i giyen m the i first: part 'find. was greatly iadmired. ';ZJM :: -*fey •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 30, 3 July 1885, Page 2
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173Radcliff-Rita Concert. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 30, 3 July 1885, Page 2
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