SUDDEN DEATH
'DURING "TOTAL ECLIPSE" SONG ' After singing the opening words of tho tenor solo "Total Eclipse," from ] andel's oratorio "Samson," • Mr. Alec Campbell, of Tennyson Road, i outhampton, collapsed at the South- : rpton Music Festival recently. He i cd later in hospital. Mr. Campbell's mother was in the i c udience and she saw him lean over i.ie piano and fall to the platfonn. Lhe was the first to reach his side. Sir Hugh Robertson conductor of tho Glasgow Orpheus Choir who was juciging the competition had just writi :n a note on his marking sheet. "Had a certain dignity" when Mr. Campbell collapsed.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 542, 27 May 1933, Page 6
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105SUDDEN DEATH Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 542, 27 May 1933, Page 6
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