FAMOUS SINGERS FOR PROVINCES
Lightning Tour Arranged For July
the Centennial Music Festival Principals into most of the main provincial towns of New Zealand during July, according to an announcement made by the Centennial Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. The machinery of the tour will, as before, be in the hands of the National Broadcasting Service, working with local Centennial Committees. Four front-rank vocalists, Clifford Huntsman, the well-known pianist, and a Centennial string quartet, will make up a battery of talent such as provincial towns seldom, if ever, see in the flesh. The singers will be: Isobel Baillie (soprano) Gladys Ripley (contralto) Heddle Nash (tenor) Oscar Natzke (bass) The three overseas artists and Mr. Natzke have just concluded the outstandingly successful tour with the Centennial Festival Symphony Orchestra. The fourth overseas artist, Raymond Beatty, who was Mephisto in "Faust," has had to return to Australia. The orchestra, it has been decided, is too unwieldy to make the rush tour planned for the solomonth’s lightning tour will carry four of
Kn ists, whose contracts have been extended just long enough to make the visit possible. However, by way of compensation, and it should be ample, the following quartet will travel, as well as Clifford Huntsman: Vincent Aspey (first violin) Harry Ellwood (second violin) William McLean (viola) Francis Bate (violoncello) Travelling by aeroplane, rail, and road, the come. pany will keep the following engagements: July 1, Nelson; July 3, Greymouth; July 5, Timaru; July 6, Oamaru; July 9 and 10, Invercargill; July 13, Palmerston North; July 15, Wanganui; July 19, Napier; July 20, Gisborne; July 22, Rotorua; July 23, Hamilton; July 25, W hangarei. ; Although the trip will mean long journeys and few rests, it will give the English visitors an opportunity to see more of New Zealand than has been possible in their tour of the main centres, with important rehearsals taking up all their spare time, The first part of the journey, from Wellington to Nelson, and then south to Westport, will be made by. aeroplane.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 53, 28 June 1940, Page 8
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