PHILHARMONIC QUARTET

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

PHILHARMONIC QUARTET

The personnel of the Phailharmonic Quartet, scheduled for November 11, is particularly good. Every member is an excellent soloist, and all have sung professionally for choral societies, musical entertainments, and concerts in Great Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand. Mrs. Ellison Porter, the sopranv, has a pretty voice of. limpid purity, equally suited for dainty and sacred music. She was very successful in her recent appearance with the Royal Wellington Choral Union as Lola in "Cavalleria Rusticana,’"’ and has been engaged to sing the soprano solos in the ‘""Messiah"’ for the Levin Choral Society. Miss Madge Freeman, a young Wellington contralto, is the possessor of a deep, rich voice, full of dramatic fervour. She was the recipient of a very flattering reception at the recent W.T.B. concert, and in the alto role in ‘‘A Tale of Old Japan," recently given by the

Levin Choral Societg "she met with popular favour, and should go far in her profession. She has the natural ettdowment of a flute-like tone." Mr. Edwin Dennis, the tenor, is well known throughout the whole of New Zealand as a brilliant tenor vocalist. He has wonderful control of his voice. -his diction is excellent, and is an artist to his finger tips. He has performed at -‘Queen’s Halli and Central Hall, London, and throughout Australia and New Zealand. He is an Associate of the Royal College of Music, London. Mr. W. W. Marshall's bass voice is one of those rich, deep, musical voices that everybody enjoys. At the lowest note it still maintains its quality. "Mr. Marshall was trained in London, where he was vety successful as a performer in the principal halls, which success he also enjoyed throughout Great Britain and the Continent. As a concert per former, locally, his singing is always artistic and popular.