HAWAIIAN TROUBADOURS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 222, 8 December 1927, Page 17

HAWAIIAN TROUBADOURS

HIS MAJESTY’S ON MONDAY The music loving public of Auckland has an exceptional treat in store dLiring the visit of Kaai’s Hawaiian Troubadours to His Majesty’s Theatre for a season of six nights commencing on Monday, December 12. The sensational success scored by this company at the Grand Opera House, Wellington, recently, is still fresh in the public memory. To readers of SoLith Seas stories will come vividly the atmosphere of those islands as the languid and soft-voiced songs and chants of these people unfold to the listener the charm of living among that ’ unique race. Hawaiian music has a simplicity which is well nigh irresistible, and has recently had a vogue: or more rightly, . come into its own. There is none of the rough and tumble dash and breathless haste of the popular American ’ rag; it is music pure and unadulter- ’ ated, soft and mellow, yet strong and '(passionate. There is also the added 1 charm of the Hawaiian voices and inj struments, without which it cannot be ! said to be complete. ! The Hawaiian certainly possesses a ; | wonderful gift of melodic expression, ' and to-day their soft, stirring music is I played in almost every corner of the I globe. Thousands of New Zealanders ! would like to visit Honolulu, but un- : j fortunately it requires money to get ■ ' there; those who do not possess ample - cash, however, need not despair of ’ gaining at least an impression of the i life and music of Hawaii ► i Mr. Kaai and his Troubadours bring l |“A Night in Honolulu” to New Zea- . land, opening amidst beautiful palm > trees, tropical flowers, and moonlit i I shimmering Honolulu beach. The whole • | threatre will be transformed into a , beaLitiful island setting of the Sunny South. Lovers of a good entertaini j ment should not miss this most unique j theatrical novelty of the year.