SONG RECITAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1919, Page 7

SONG RECITAL.

MR. FRANK AMOORE AT THE EMPIRE. The song recital given by Mr. Frank Amoore, the Australian lyric tenor, at the Empire Theatre last "night, drew a very good audience, and hearty appreciation was shown of all the numbers presented. The programme selected was generous and comprehensive, and it gave the singer ample scope for the display of his ability. It was also an exacting programme, which Mr. Amoore car-, ried through with conspicuous success. His voice, though not robust, is sweet and flexible, and is always under good control. Mr. Amoore's enunciation is clear and distinct, and his interpretation of the works presented last nigh* met with general approval. The operatic selections included the recitative and aria from Gounod's "Faust," "What Is It That Charms me?" and "All Hail Thou Dwelling," and Leoncavallo's "To Act With My Heart Maddened With Sorrow," and "On With The Motley," from the opera "Pagliacci," In oratorio, Mr. Amoore was heard in Haydn's "And God | Created Man," and "In Native Worth," from "The Creation," and the recitative and aria from Handel's "Messiah," "Comfort Ye," and "Every Valley." These, of course, formed thp heaviest portion of the programme. They were all well presented, "On With The Motley," being given with good appreciation of the dramatic character of the number, and was without doubt the best number of the evening. In the "Messiah" numbers, Mr. Amoore >-tng the recitative with splendid deliberation and much feeling, and he infused a good deal of life into "Every Valley." Mr. Amoore was quite successful also in a number of light ballads. His opening bracket included "My Dream" (Tosti), and "Songs Of Araby" (Clay), and latcv in the evening, he gave a group of three modern songs, in which he was admirably suited, as he was also in the old English songs, "My Pretty Jane," and "Come Into The Garden, Maud," with which the programme concluded. Mr, Amoore was generous with encores, which were insisted upon after *acn appearance. Mr. Basil Hartman, who assisted Mr. Amoore, is a clever entertainer in the elocutionary art, and gave quite a number of very enjoyable items, in which fe depended principally on his ability to imitate others trying to "give a recitation." Mr. H. L Northern played as a flute solo, a cavatina of Clinton's, and in response to a recall gave "The Heart Bowed Down." Mrs. P. Frederic had a heavy task at the piano. She not only played all the accompaniments with grace and delicacy, but also contributed two solos. In the first half, she played the Chopin ballad I in A flat, and in the second part Mos. kowski's "Valtz Brilliante."