SCOTTISH CONTRALTO

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 359, 21 May 1928, Page 14

SCOTTISH CONTRALTO

MARGARET AITKEN’S CONCERT Margaret McKenzie Aitken, the Scottish contralto, supported by Madame Mabel St. James (Royal Academy, London), elocutionist, and Miss Marjorie Wigg (Sydney Conservatorium), ’cellist, and Leo Whittaker, pianist, will give a concert in the Scots Hall, Symonds Street, to-morrow evening at 8 p.m. Miss Aitken will sing Italian, English, old Highland and aelic songs, including: “Voce de donne o d’angelo” (Ponchielli), “Softly Awakes My Heart” (St. Saens), “Dream Tryst” (Cadman), “Deep in the Heart of a Rose” (Donald), “The Hour” (Kahn), “Requiem” (Homer), “Tell Me Do the Roses Blow?” (Green), “Meeting of the Waters” (Moore), “Ye Banks and Braes” (Burns), “The White Cockade,” “My Heart is Sair,” “Sound the Pibroch,” and songs of the Hebrides, “An Eriskay Love Lilt, Gaelic (Kennedy Fraser), “The Bens of Jura” (Kennedy Fraser), “Fairy Love Song” (Kennedy Fraser), “Fear a Bhata” (“The Boatman,” Gaelic song), “Land of Heart’s Desire” (Kennedy Fraser). Madame St. James will recite “Burial March of Dundee” and “The Kelpie of the Corrievrochan.” Miss Wigg will play “Hungarian Rhapsody” (Popper), “La Filicuse” (Dunkler), and “Minuetto” (Boch).