SULLIVAN RECITAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 632, 8 April 1929, Page 15

SULLIVAN RECITAL

MUNICIPAL BAND CONCERT Selections from the works of Sir Arthur Sullivan were presented by the Municipal Band in the Town Hall on Saturday evening, when a large audience showed keen appreciation of a fine programme. An overture. “Di Balo,” a hymn. “O Gladsome Night,” and the “Mikado'* selection, played by the band, was followed by a selection from “lolanthe.** “When Britain Ruled the Waves,” sung by Mr. Karl Atkinson. Mr. Atkinson was applauded enthusiastically in “The Mikado’s Song.” A cornet solo, “The Lost Chord.’’ was played by Mr. Fred Bowes. The band was then heard in a selection from “Patience." Mrs. Daisy Basham sang “When Maiden Loves,” from “The Yeomen of the Guard," and, with Mr. Atkinson, sang a duet from “The Mikado,” “There is Beauty in the Bellow xyf the Blast.” Other band selections included “Yeomen of the Guard,” “See How Brightly the Fates,” and “Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day,” from the “Mikado.” The programme concluded with the playing of a “Gondoliers” selection by the band. ORGAN RECITAL Mr. Maughan Barnett, the city organist, presented an attractive programme in the Town Hall last evening. Items included Bach's “C Major Toe-r-ato and Fugue.” a concerto by Covelli. Liszt’s legend. “Saint Francis Preaching to the Birds.” and Arcadeldt’s “Ave Maria,” arranged for organ and bells. After careful consideration of a large number of stories, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has selected “Way for a Sailor” as John Gilbert’s first warring vehicle under his new contract. Gilbert is enthusiastic about the possibilities of the new story, a narrative of marine adventure, with a varied background and a fast-moving plot, production of which will be on a scale larger than “Tell It to the Marines ' “Way for a Sailor’” is an autobiogr .- -hical story by Albert Richard Wetjcn.