ROYAL AUCKLAND CHOIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1050, 14 August 1930, Page 14

ROYAL AUCKLAND CHOIR

TONIGHT’S CONCERT VARIED OFFERING For the second concert of its 39th season the Royal Auckland Choir is presenting a varied programme of part songs and instrumental and vocal solos, at the Town. Hall this evening. The choir numbers are:—“Hymn to Cynthia” (Tours), “The Lee Shore” (Jenkins), “The Chough and the Crow” (Bishop), “O Peaceful Night” (German), “To the Stars” (Attwater), “Pirate Dreams,” with solo by Miss Mina Caldow (Huerter), “The Hag” (LovaXt), “The Smugglers” (Limnander) and “A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea” (Lloyd). The soloists will be Miss Mina Caldow, who will sing “How’s My Boy” (Homer), “Not Understood” (Houghton) and "Here’s April” (Sanderson), and Mr. Eric Bell (pianist), who will play Liszt’s “Rhapsodie Hongroise.” The Moore Sisters’ Instrumental Trio will play Mozart’s “Rondo Alla Turca” and Haydn’s Minuet from "Military Symphonie.”

HIGH PRAISE FOR AUSTRALIAN SINGER “The Gokud o£ Mr. John Brownlee was as great a piece of work as we have seen at Covent Garden this season,” says a London critic, in referring to the performance of “Pelleas et Melisande” at Covent Garden. "The career of this young man will be watched by many of us with unusual interest. His voice is as musical an organ as could be wished, and as he seems to have, in addition, an instinctive sense of dramatic psychology and an extraordinary taste and restraint in parts the essence of which is a certain controlled violence, he should go very far indeed.”