WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12643, 2 November 1905, Page 5

WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.

The Westminster Glee and Gcmoei-t Party lare announced^ to appear at the Opera House on Tu«^&ig?r^a>d 'Wednesday next. -7*" * It T,vil!l be interesting -to -Australasaan readers to knoiw ißst% ftihis company's Last tour round tie world established a world's record in respect to concert giy- j ing, the party travelled 62,000_ miles in* 547 days, visited 219 to-wns, gave 390 perfcrmiamces, and mafle 18 sea journeys, their repertoire consisting of 90 pieces, all of \rhieh. lvere performed from memory. IJt" is two years since these singers were last in New Zealand, and their rdtuTn wdll ibe awaited witih. much inifceresfc.' The present combination left London in April twelve months ago, and' (have just completed successful totim tlm-tQugh .South Africa, India, Bualraafa, and China: " .: The unusual combination of boys' amd, morn's "voices, selected from ,tih© most famous exponents of part-tanging in England, hW enabled ttheni •#> present a series of programmes interesting and eajoya'ble alike to the cultured- musician and "the enthusiastic amateur..,

Ona of the most a-eoeptoble form of voted inmsic is umd'oulbtedly unacctolnipanied part-singing, and the revival of t!h.»se ancient pant-songs, glees, and madrigals, which are classics in English music, 'iniber'preited as they "will be by such a talented conubmia'bion, offers unique attraction. Th'i paa-ty alsio i'lluetniate the humorous " catoh," so popular in olden times, a fopna of oomposition in i«;hich the wprds aii©'" oaugM"" up fiicmi one singer ■anotihei*, in suoh a .way' thaffc. the most Serious 'lines are; trzinsfdrmed into soime'' thing humoirous. ■ »

11l addition to these essential features the solos of the iboy goprianos and the humorous sketches of Mr Dudley Caustxm will be interesting iand novel. Sevex<a,l airtflsts ,whb> made themselves popular during <the 'iasfc Ausitraliam tour of •the Westmdinsfcea: Singers atre sfcill witih ftSzie party, viz., Mr Ediwa,rd Biians--003111)0, iMSadtaime' Mamie Hootori^ the EngKsh conttodtio, and MxJßeivcy .Qoward. ';'■ The reserved seafc plan -opens at H. I. Jcmies ismd Bon I^his morning. |