THE AUSTRIAN BAND.
A good house greeted the Austrian Band last night. The programme comprised a selection of high-class music and it was faithfully gone through by the combined wind and string company. The bandsmen in their military dress form' a very admirable group on the stage, and their playing is something to be remembered. It is not only that the pieces are well executed. It is that everything is done with the utmost skill, precision,and taste. Delicacy and delightful alternations of light and shade, indicate thehighest culture. The conductor is certainly,the: best wielder of the bSton ever seen in the colony. We have not space to give a full account of the performance, but we must specially notice the potpourri or airs f rom“Martha,” that closed the first part. It was perhaps the finest performance overheard in Timaru, a magnificent clarionet solo being the feature of it. The second part exhibited the band’s wonderful skill in various kinds of pieces. The most admired were “ The Evening Prayer,’’ by Reinecke, exquisitely soft, low and expressive ; and a potpourri of German songs, delightful to hear. It is seldom given to us to hear anything so magnificent as the performance of this band.
To-night there will be an entire change of programme.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2793, 7 March 1882, Page 2
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210THE AUSTRIAN BAND. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2793, 7 March 1882, Page 2
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