ALIDA LOMAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 22 November 1907, Page 3

ALIDA LOMAN.

A GKI2AT AIITISX, The Xcw Zealand Times, in devoting a leading article to Madame Alida Lonmn statu J: —"There was nut a note thai Madame. sang which did not go straight to tile hearts and intelligence of those who listened, though, of course, the audience had its preferences. Ante's Shakespearian Setting of Shakespeare's lovely lyric, "Where the Bee Sucks," was rendered with what may, without (lattery, be called a .Shakespearian grace and spirituality. This the audience unmistakably felt, and called clamorously for a repetition, a demand with which Madame complied. an ill-advised indulgence, because an exquisite thing of this kind cannot be repeated without a certain deteiroration in the pleasure—without a jar almost like that of a repeat in an oratorio. Gounod's "Ave Maria," as sung by Madame Loman, would have excited devotional fervor in a pagan, whilst the exquisitely lfandelinn "Come and trip it" was not merely Handel—it avhb I'Allogro. it was what Milton would have liad it—music "married to immortal verse."

The JJominioii states l'Tfinostertfatiously, with 110 flourish of trumpets, no boating of drums, Madame Loman opened her Wellington season in the Town Hall, and slie charmed her audience into grateful and spontaneous submission. Rlift hound them with bands of gold ;vnd fetters from fairyland, ami <hov capitulated without parley and with glad content. The singer revels in her songs likp n bird relpase,! from bondage." . 1 Madame Toman and company, consisting of "Eric Anderson (basso), Mr <"r. "Ponlo (flautist), and TTerr Benno Scherek (pianist) will give two reoituls in Xew Plymouth on the evening* of November 27th and 28th, when a great reception may bo expected. Tlio box plan opens at the Dresden on Saturday morning.