AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 43, 31 May 1910, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

THE CALEDONIANS' AND NATIONAL DANCERS. The Caledonians will be showir..; in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday and \ /ednesday next, under t'he direction of Mr Jock Willis, late of Pollards, Richards, and Bland Holt companies, this is suffipient guarantee that the company is of a high class order. When you read per advertisement that champions are coming, they are coming, and can be seen and heard to-night aiid to-morrow night. The Caledonians have established themselves great favorites, their receptions elsewhere being most enthusiastic This is their farewell tour of New Zealand prior to touring America. Box plan at Dresden. Note—Waitara, Monday, May 30th; Patea, Thursday and Friday, June 2nd and 3rd.

THE ELL-WOOD.TRIO. 'So much has been read and heard regarding the wonderful musical gifts bestowed by nature on these clever young New Zealanders, that the following from a Wellington paper may prove interesting:— The Ellwoocl trio and Miss Winnie Nixon their second concert at the Town Hall (Concert Chamber) last evening, before a large audience. Master George Ellwood, whose mastery of the 'cello gives abundant promise of future | distinctioE ) appeared to be the special j favourite. His items included the eccentric "Taig, Tzig," study (Squires), a I dainty "Tarantelle" of Ooltermann's, with, as encore numbers, a "Gavotte Humoristique" (Squire), and Saint Saens' beautiful idyll, "Le.Cygne." The little fellow was in excellent form. Harry, his elder brother, was equally successful with his violin, and very capably interpreted an exacting Vieuxtempts "Polonaise," and Sarasate's fantastic but intricate "Gypsy Airs," adding, as encore numbers, Schumann's simple but beautiful "Traumarei," and a guy "Oanzonetta D'Ambrosio." With Miss '.Polly Ellwood at the piano, the trio were' thoroughly enjoyable. The last two movements of t'he Arensky Trio in D Minor (Op. 32) afforded the young musician plenty of opportunity for demonstrating their undoubted capacity for concerted music. They realiy excelled, however, in the second concerted item, Greig's Norwegian Dance (No. 1), playing the characteristic music with spirited abandon, yet in perfect accord. Miss Winnie Nixon was tendered a very flattering reception and her full, rich* young voice was thoroughly delightful to listen to. Of her items, "My Dearest Heart" (Sullivan), "Four By'the Clock" (Mallinson), "Chanson de Florian" (Godard), the request number, Maschevoni's "Ave Maria" (with organ and violin obligato), "Come Close, Beloved" (Lambert), and Noel Johnson's "A Wee Bit Shy" (encore numbers)—the singer was, if anything, most enjoyable in the tine "Ave Maria," and in the bewitching ballad of Noel Johnson's. Her pianissimo, it must be sard, leaves nothing to be desired—wonderfully controlled, and admirably sustained. *