Marie Narelle

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 1, 3 January 1907, Page 17

Marie Narelle

Miss Marie Narelle , opens her Dunedin season of "three nights at His Majesty's Theatre on January 14, and' a, reception is to be tendered to her by our leading citizens and musicians. -An excerpt from ' Ihe Bulletin ' re her singing of the songs of. Erin :— ' Miss is'arelle, in Irish ballads of pathos, has so , piercing a sweetness and- so deepseated an appreciation of the sentiments she enunciates in song, that in- the really ''sympathetic listener she causes mental disturbance. Many of her audience were in tears, and tears- are sometimes more subtle flattery than -praises. Whether warbling with expressive f.djlity to the mood, a humorous love song of an Irish ' Boreen, or summoning with fiery ardor the forces of' Tryconnel to the fury of the fray as in "O f Donnell Aboo," Miss Narelle expresses the soul .and spirit of her song. Her four, -years' absence has ripened, so to speak, the ,jrich vocal- qualities of her soprano voice, which she uses with all the art and effectiveness of the experienced art'lste. As a singer of the ballads beloved of the Ceit, she has no compeer, and in this respect she- received from her • own folk in Sydney a splendid endorsement of ihe verdict already accorded her in other lands. Her reception by the large audience that filled the spacious hall was a triumph. It was • for this time of triumph she had left home and country to face the tiials of strange environment in search of recognition. For some time she was kept bov>tng her acknowledgments as the .waves^of applause surged -through the hall. . It was a reception" well worth the journey round- the world to experience. - Miss Narelle could not fail to realise, that Sydney's heart held a warm corner for her.'- " a