AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 20 September 1915, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THE KENNEDYS. TUB MUSICAL QUARTETTE. A contemporary ga-ys that right from ■ ! * the opening number they get into ijae. graces of the audience and as item fallowed item, each equal to if not better than the one that preceded it. The enthusiasm of those present was worked up to such a pitch, that encore followed enccfe without any thought of the length of the programme, -says a leading Southern exchange. The per-

formance was long and varied, and

each of the company displayed great skill. If there was an outstanding feature of the performance it was the ’cello playing of Mr Laurie Kennedy. His first number was “Hungarian Rhapsodie” (Popper). He gets a beam tiful mellow tone from th 8 instrument

and plays with artistic taste, and as

an encore he gave “The Broken Melody” which was played delightfully, In the second part he played a Gavotte, and in reply to the emphatic encore he gave “Bonnie Mary of Argyll.” Mr Keith Kennedy' is a brilliant young violinist and his playing was niapked by good technique and expression. His first solo was Sarete's Gipsy music, t3m wild and elfin nature of the Airs being well expressed. He respiioded with a selection bf Irish Airs, that hit the taste of the part he played “Sexette” from Lucia' di Lamntarmoor, unaccompanied, and as an encage “The Land of the Leah” Lance Kennedy is a capable flautist, and he dealt with the intricacies of an arrangement of “H Carnival© di Venezia,” and as an encore “The Butterfly,” a dainty number that was expressively rendered. “The Lost Chord” for

’cello, cornet, violin and viola concluded the rA'c-gramme and was a fine performance. Madame Bertha Kennedy is a skilful and sympathetic accompanist. The Kennedys appear in t.l>o Theatre Royal on Wednesday next. Box plan at Finch’s Bazaar.