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“Get rid of that high pitch, and your music will he so much better,’ is the advice given to New Zealand singers and intrunicntalists by Mr. Arthur Jordan, the famous English tenor, who at present is in Auckland. Ho observec that the New Zealand standard of music was surprisingly high. In Australia he had only been able to appear with orchestras and at miscellaneous concerts, but in the Dominion he. had the advantage of singing with the chief choral societies, both in operatic aiid orational works. They were performing modern masterpieces like Elgar’s as well as the great productions of the past. After a final admonition to get rid of that wretched high pitch, Mr. Jordan predicted that all New Zealand, in a few years, would want to' hear the full toned soprano of Miss "Whalley, of Palmerston North,

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Shannon News, 6 August 1926, Page 2

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Untitled Shannon News, 6 August 1926, Page 2

Untitled Shannon News, 6 August 1926, Page 2

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