MUNICIPAL CONCERT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 201, 14 November 1927, Page 15

MUNICIPAL CONCERT

BAND PROGRAMME The popularity of . the Municipal Band’s evening concerts was again emphasised on Saturday evening, when the completion of the band’s third year of activity was marked with a very successful concert at the Town Hall. Under the able direction of Mr. Christopher Smith the band has now attained a high standard of efficiency and the large attendance of the public at the afternoon and evening concerts has indeed more than justified its existence. Saturday’s programme was necessarily of a fairly popular nature. It. was also pleasingly varied, and with the support of Miss Kate Christie and Mr. Jean Dellore, as supporting artists, provided a very enjoyable entertainment. Alford’s March, “The Vanished Army,” proved an appropriate openingnumber. The band then followed with Rossini’s picturesque overture, “Italiana in Algieri,” and the “Peer Gynt” suite of Greig. This suite particularly the “Death of Ase” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King” numbers, was particularly -well-handled, and was enthusiastically recalled. Liszt’s “Rhapsodic Hongroise” also proved very successful, as also was Ancliff’s “A Forest Wooing.” Tschaikowsky’s “1812” overture, without which no band programme seems complete, was also well played. Miss Kate Christie, the possessor of a pleasing contralto voice, was quite successful in ‘Know’st Thou the Land.” from Thomas’s “Mignon,” “Ships of Arcady,” and “Michael Head.” The tenor soloist, Mr. Jean Dellore, sang very acceptably the aria, “How Many Hired Servants,’ from “The Prodigal Son” (Sullivan), “Nirvana,” and “Sally Horner.” Mr. Leo Whittaker provide very artistic accompaniments.