THE LYRIC QUARTET

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 15, 28 October 1927, Page 7

THE LYRIC QUARTET

The Lyric Quartet will be heard on Thursday evenings (November 3 and 10), and later dates to be arranged. | The Lyric Quartet was formed in 1920 and has since performed continuously before. the public. | The quartet has fulfilled engagements in all the principal picture theatres of Wellington in performing prologues to important pictures, and is’ regularly engaged at concerts given by the bands and by the Commercial Travellers’ Male Voice Choir, ; The quartet has been specially engaged by Messrs. Allen Wilkie and Dion Boucicault to supply the musical portion of their theatrical productions. They have also performed at concerts arranged by the Society of Musicians, and fulfilled engagements in provincial towns. ‘

The individual members are well known soloists in Wellington. Mr. Harry Phipps (tenor) has had experience both in Ingland and ig New Zealand. On one occasion he was champion vocalist at the Chester Eisteddfod and has won championships at Wellington, Wanganui, Napier and Christchurch. He has appeared as soloist for the Choral Union, and is one of the best known and most popular tenors i Wellington. Mr. George Howe (tenor) is also well known, having had experience in hoth Auckland and Wellington. He, too, has carried off prizes at the Wellington competitions, and has appeared as soloist for the Harmonic Society and the Commercial ‘Travellers’ Male Voice Choir. Mr. Will Goudie (baritone) is per haps the best known of this talented combination. He is a product of the studio of Mrs. Krnest Queree. His engagements in Wellington and many provincial towns are too numerous’ to miention. Perhaps hie is best kttown as the organiser of the excellent concerts held in Trentham and Featherston camps during the great war, when he arranved something like. -400 concerts. He is always a very popular artist at all concerts at which he ap» pears, Mr. W. Binet Brown (bass) is also a product of the studio of Mrs. Ernest Qucree. He has a good bass voice and has appeared as soloist on most of the concert platforms of Wellington.