Outstanding Soloists
: ‘Two outstanding singers from Britain | who have now settled in Auckland | will be among the soloists in a perform-_ ance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah by the Auckland Choral Society, to be broadcast by 1YC at 8.0 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, on relay from the Town Hall. | Beatrice. Jones (contralto) has -just ar- | rived from Wales, where she was recognised. as one of the leading soloists in Welsh oratorio. She will be making her first public appearance in this country. Edith Black (soprano) was a soloist with the. Glasgow Orpheus Choir, and with the Glasgow Royal Choral Society in The Messiah. Other soloists are John Dowling (tenor) and Raymond Windsor (bass), and the choir, with the Auckland Radio Concert Orchestra of the, NZBS, will be conducted by Georg Tintner. An unusual feature of the performance will be the use of women’s | voices as tenors because of difficulty in) obtaining male tenors.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 668, 24 April 1952, Page 11
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152Outstanding Soloists New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 668, 24 April 1952, Page 11
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