NORMAN BLITZ COMPANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 9 December 1910, Page 5

NORMAN BLITZ COMPANY.

A SPLENDID COMBINATION. The Norman-Blitz Concert Company, which appeared in Masterton last night for a first time, is one of the strongest musical combinations that has ever visited this district. It is to be regretted that a combination of which every member is an artist should have been patronised by a wretched house. Even the excuse of counter-attraction is not sufficient to justify the treatment accorded these talented musicians. The programme presented was one which any man or woman with a vein of music in his or her composition should have been delighted to hear. That every member should have been loudly encored by the limited audience was a graceful, though somewhat poor recognition of the efforts of the artists. The singing of Miss Amy Murphy was a revelation. She- was in splendid voice, and hexclear, bell-like soprano reached every part of the hall, and fairly entranced the audience. Her duet with Miss Nellie Black was also charmingly rendered. Miss Black is the possessof of a fine contralto voice of wide range, and she used it to great advantage. She also contributed a very fine violin solo. Mr Walter Whyte, the tenor of the company, rendered several popular ballads with a freedom of expression and fullness of volume which was surprising. Ho is an excellent- tenor singer, and was imperiously encored. Miss Edith Nevill contributed two items, for wheh she was called back on each occasion, whilst Miss Mabel Fowler, another charming soprano, delighted the audience with her singing. The whole entertainment was above the ordinary professional standard, and should have attracted a crowded liouse. But, somehow or another, it didn't.