THE AUSTRIAN BAND.
There were no.two opinions about last night’s performance at the Royal. The house was everywhere well filled, by an attentive and delighted audience. The music of the Austrian Band has had a reception worthy of its merits, in Timaru. Many of the listeners had never before beard a band so highly trained—for nothing that has ever appeared in any of these colpnies can be at all compared with them. One remembers Jullien and Halle’s concerts, and the orchestras of Germany and France. With these alone is it possible to compare them. The duet for violins, “Grandmamma will dance,’’ was the gem of the gems last night—but really everything was so splendidly performed that it is difficult to name any for special commendation. The precision and finish of everything is incomparable. The concluding piece, a “ humoristic ’’ potpourri, was a very skilfully executed bit of laughable instrumentation, cleverly interjecting all sorts of discordant noises and calls, in the midst of the harmony. The band goes on to-day to Ashburton thence to Christchurch. We can only hope on some future occasion to welcome them again to Timaru.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2794, 8 March 1882, Page 2
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187THE AUSTRIAN BAND. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2794, 8 March 1882, Page 2
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