THE ORPHEUS NIGHT

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 16, 4 November 1927, Page 7

THE ORPHEUS NIGHT

Some very delightful concerted num. | bers are to be presented by’ the Orpheus Quartet (Mrs, Alice Harris, Miss Lily Mackie, Mr. Arthur Coe, and Mr. Len Barnes) ou the evening of Tuesday, November 8. "Rose of My Heart" is a wery fine quartet arrangement of Herman Lohr’s popular song. The great Russian composer Tschaikowsky will be represented by a very impressive sacred number, ‘'The Cherubic Hymn.’" Compositions of this kind are frequently heard in the Russian Church, and it will be remembered that the famous: ‘Don Cossacks included quite a number of them in their programmes, The last

verse is a splendid piece of writing. By way of contrast, "Kentucky Babe" is a melodious refrain reminiscent of negro life and conveying all the quaintness of negro music and speech. From the realm of opera several notable solos have been selected for presentation. ‘‘Fierce Flames are Soaring"

is sung by "Ayncena" in Verdi’s opera "T] Trovatore." It describes how her mother is’ burned at the stake at the behest of cruel old "Count di Luna." It also relates how "Ayncena’’ stole the old Count's child, intending to cast the infant into the flames, but in mistake gave her own child to the horrible death. ‘Eri tu che Macchiave’’ is the great baritone aria from another of _Verdi’s operas, "Un Ballo in Maschera." At the outset it portrays the lusband’s righteous anger, but later in the aria we hear him in sorrowful vein as he looks back on the happiness now wrecked through his wife’s-unfaithfulness. ‘Love, Could I Only Teli Thee," by Capel, was originally sung in ‘Floradora.". It is in the composer's best vein, and is a fine, passionate love song , } The Orpheus programme will also in- | clude "My Old Kentueky Home," a tenor solo and- quartet chorus; the duct "Wiolets,’ and "Here in the Quiet Hills,’ a contralto solo, The two lastnamed numbers are in quieter mood. Altogether quite a delightful feast of music. |