ALFRED O’SHEA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 394, 30 June 1928, Page 14

ALFRED O’SHEA

TONIGHTS CONCERT An exceptionally fine programme has been arranged for the third concert to be given by Mr. Aftred O'Shea, the ; famous Irish tenor, at the Town Hall this evening. Apart from the great popularity of Mr. O’Shea's Irish ballads and folk songs, the programme selected will also attract all lovers of good songs. From the operatic field Mr. O'Shea has selected the following numbers: “Saint, Demeure” (“Faust”), and the famous aria “E Lucevan le Stelle” j (“The Stars Were Shining”). from j “Tosca.” In response to numerous rej quests he will also sing Bizet’s “Agnus j Dei,” accompanied on the grand organ ; by Mr. Maughan Barnett. Massenet's : very expressive “Elegie” will be sung I with a violin obbligato supplied by | Miss Claire Hartge. | Other numbers will be “A Song Re- ■ menibered” (Eric Coates), “I Heard a ! Thrush at Eve” (Cadman). Extra numI bers will be selected from "Where’er . You Walk.” “Tom Bowling,” “Bonny j Mary of Argyle,” “Snowy-breasted ! Pearl,” “She is Far From the Land,” j and “The Minstrel Boy.” Special ! numbers will be given by Kathleen | Fitzgerald, pianist, and Claire Hartge. i violinist. ! The programme is pleasingly varied, j and the addition of several numbers j from operas in which Mr. O Shea has appeared will odd further interest, j The final concert will be given on | Monday evening.