THE ORPHEUS QUARTET

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 18, 18 November 1927, Page 12

THE ORPHEUS QUARTET

A BRIGHT AND VARIED PROGRAMME. Personnel-Mrs. Alice Harris (soprano), Miss Lily Mackie (contralto), Mr. Arthur Coe (tenor), Mr. Len Barnes (baritone). , The Orpheus Quartet’s contribution to the programme of 2YA fur the evening of Tuesday, 22nd inst., will be bright and varied. ‘The concerted numbers to be presented will afford wide scope for the demonstration of the vocal --ersatility of the four singers. ‘Tell Me, Pretty Maiden,’ is the famous number from ‘Vlorodora,’" which Mr. Wen Barnes recently conducted in Wellington. ‘Home ‘To Our Mountains," one of the most famous duets ever composed, is from "TI! Jrovatore."? In ‘Dany Deever’’ we have one of Rudyard Kipling’s great poems, which is -*id to have been inspired by an actual happening in India. Mr. Barnes was privileged to sing this song at the London Savage Cinh, where Colonel McKenzie Ro-: gan informed the members that he was actually preset at the hanging of the man whom Kipling had in mind when he wrote the poem. ‘Rose — Softly Blooming" is a beautiful melody, and one of Ludwig Spohr’s most + opular songs.