NORMAN BLITZ COMPANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10135, 8 December 1910, Page 3

NORMAN BLITZ COMPANY.

"A DELIGHTb'DL CONCERT." Music lovers have a treat in store at the Town Hall this evening, when the Norman-Blitz Concert Company will present a programme of operatic and ballard gems. The company opened at the Opera House, Wellington, on Thursday lilst, and this is what the Dominion of Friday said of the performance given then:—Those who visited the Opera House last evening to hear me concert given by the Norman-Blitz Company were richly rewarded. Talent, mostly of a high order, abounded, and the numbers programmed, with -few exceptions, were arti?f.'oa,'ly interesting and admirably suited to the performers, and so well were they received that encores were the order of the evening. Miss Amy Murphy, the soprano of the company, has been very popular on the platforms for many years in New Zealand, and her contributions were received with the warmest favour. Another established favourite and highly gifted artist was Miss Nellie Black, who is equally at home as a violinist, and accompanist, to which might be added in bare justice a possessing platform style. In the duets with Miss Murphy her voice was heard to good advantage. It was a real treat to hear Mi- Walter Whyte, the tenor of the combination. His voice is strong, clear, and resonantly musical, and everything ho sang was better than well sung. Miss Mabel Fowler, a young singer, a little new to the platform, has a voice of peculiar charm; peculiar in that she appears to blend two distinct qualities, that of light soprano and a mezzo, .without regard to the register in which she is singing. The peculiarity, strange to say, is not a blemish, as the voice is delightfully and under good control, as was evidenced in her use of the mezzo-voce. Other performers are Mr Louis Blitz ('cellist) Mr J. C. Norman (pianist), and Miss Edith Nevill (vocalist). The company deserves well of the music-loving public. Seats (3s 2s) can now be hooked at Miss Rives' bookshop.