MOZARTS “REQUIEM”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23916, 18 September 1939, Page 3

MOZARTS “REQUIEM”

TO-MORROW NIGHT’S PERFORMANCE Indications are that to-morrow night’s presentation of Mozart’s Requiem Mass will be a successful and satisfying one, for it is a work that the Choral Society has previously performed. In times such as this, the appeal of great music is obvious, and there . are few more beautiful works than this Requiem Mass, composed amid great poverty in the last year of Mozart’s life, and completed by his pupil, Sussmayer. The choir can be relied upon to give musicianly interpretations of the magnificent choruses with which the Mass abends. er* 'oirMy the “Dies Irae" (Day of Vengeance), the powerful ' i-,acrxmoi.a,'’ and the triumphant “ Hostias ” (“ Offering of Prayer and Praise We Bring to Thee”). The soloists will be Miss Doris Wilson, soprano, Miss Alisqn Tyrie contralto, Mr Cedric Wallis, tenor, and Mr Russell Laurenson, baritone, and the orchestra will be specially organised on the scale of Mozart’s instrumentation. In addition, the choir, which is being conducted by Mr Alfred Walmsley, will sing two interesting part songs by Dunedin musicians—Mary Martin’s “ Lacking Samite and Sable,” and the delightful “Shepherdess,” of Professor V. E. Galway. There are to be three magnificent operatic choruses of Handel, which have been specially adapted by Sir Henry Wood, and also two folk songs. Mr Laurenson, the baritone soloist in the Mass will also be heard in the aria, “ Eri Tu,” from Verdi’s opera, “Un Ballo in Maschera.” A ladies’ double trio, the Castalian Singers, will give an item. Booking arrangements are advertised. 1 , ... „