AMY EVANS AND FRASER GANGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 352, 12 May 1928, Page 15

AMY EVANS AND FRASER GANGE

TO-NIGHT’S CONCERT Tlie Auckland season of the popular singers, Miss Amy Evans and Mr. Fraser Gange, will commence to-night in the Town Mall concert chamber, under the direction of E. J. Gravestock, Ltd. These distinguished artists have achieved an unqualified success in "Wellington, and an extra concert had to be given to meet the heavy demand for seats. The “Dominion” says: “To these islands these cultured singers bring a new breath from the artistic world on the other side of the Equator. Each is a complete and ingratiating artist in his or her own sphere. In a programme selected with care and in the best of taste, they quickly established themselves, in the opinion of tlie discriminating, as vocalists of catholic breadth, and the finest culture. There is never a suspicion of overreaching for an effect, or a note beyond their capacity—in each number there is that artistry and rare intelligence which brings out the poetical meaning of the lyrics. It is the art of singing at its best, and the enthusiasm, which was the keynote of the evening, had a solid basis of merit in its most refined and artistic sense.” For the opening concert to-night a fine programme has -been arranged. Miss Evans’s selections including “Por—i Amor” (Mozart), “Depuis le jour” (Charpentier), “Wiegenlxed” (Max Reger), “Die Allmacht” (SchubertPower), “My Lovely Celia”' (Monro), “When E’er a Snowflake” (Liza Lehmann), “Me ’Company Along” (Richard Hageman). and the duet with Mr. Gange from “Rigoletto.” Mr. Gange’s selections include the prologue from “Pagliacci,” “Traum durch die Daemmerung” (Strauss), “Wohin” (Schubert), “The Two Grenadiers,” “Figlial Mio Pactre,” from “Rigoletto” (Schumann), “The Song o’ the Pipes” (Waldo Warner), “Farmer John” (Waldo Warner), and “A Smuggler’s Song (Mullxnar). The second concert will be given on Tuesday next. The box plans are at Coleman’s, His -Majesty's Arcade, and the day sales at Lewis Eady, Ltd.

In response to repeated requests these fine singers will appear in the Theatre Royal. Hamilton, on Monday evening, and Town Hall, "Whangarei, on Wednesday evening.