WELLINGTON HARMONIC SOCIETY
TOWN HALL SATURDAY. One of the most delightful forms of vocal work is that of the art of unaccompanied part-singing, and it is in that particular branch of music that the above society excels. For the final concert of the 1926 season, to he held in the Town Hall Concert Chamber on Saturday evening next, an excellent programme has been arranged. Under the conductorship of Mr H. Temple White the choir of picked voices will be heard in a great variety of numbers, including "Ay Waukin” and "Banks o’ Doon” (Robertson), "Early Morn” and "Spring” (Rutland Houghton), "Diaphenia”—one of a series of six Elizabethan pastorals set to music by Stanford; "In the Merry Spring” (Ravenscrolt), "Evening Scene” (Elgar), "Jack and Joan” —a 17th century poem set to music by Granville Bantock, and "Blossoms Born of Teeming Springtime” (Dvorak). The society will be assisted by Mrs A. E. Burge (soprano), Mr E. W. Robbins (tenor), Mr and Mrs R. R. Orr, and a male voice quartette. Mr Harold Whittle will be the accompanist. The box plan is at tho Bristol, and although it is filling rapidly thcr«* aro a few scats left for nousubscribers at popular prices*
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12614, 26 November 1926, Page 8
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199WELLINGTON HARMONIC SOCIETY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12614, 26 November 1926, Page 8
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