Puccini Society

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 6, 21 August 1931, Page 6

Puccini Society

Concert to be Broadcast by 1YA N=®xt Sunday evening, August 23, after the relay of the service in the Baptist Tabernacle, 1YA will broadeast a sacred concert which is to be given in St. Benedict’s Church by the Puccini Society, under the direction of Signor A. T. Constantini. This choir has a fine reputation as a musical organisation in Auck] «1. Signor Conscantini was for many years a member of the Sistine Chapel Choir which toured New Zealand some years ago. He was persuaded to stay in this country in order to give New Zealand the benefit of his experience, in church and-operatic music in Ttalyf ‘ The choir will sing several numbet's which are not known outside the Roman Catholic Church, and will conclude the programme with a very fine Pontifical’ Mass, written by Monsignor..Lawrence Perosi, conductor of the Sistine Chapel Choir. This is a choral number for three mixed voices with violin obbligato.