CHRISTCHURCH LIEDERTAFEL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6935, 26 October 1900, Page 1

CHRISTCHURCH LIEDERTAFEL.

GEMISCHTER ABEND. There was an unusually large audience at the Gemisohter Abend which the Christchuroh Liedertafel gave at the Choral Hall yesterday evening. Long before eight o'clock most of the seats in the body of the tall were filled, and a few minutes after that hour there was very little vacant accommodation in the building. An excellent programme was provided, and with aj few exceptions it was capitally interpreted. Indeed, there appeared to bo a consensus of opinion among the audience that tho concert was one of the most enjoyable ever given by the Society. In nearly every instance the part-songs were sung in a manner which showed that they had been carefully rehearsed. The majority of them went well, and if there were any which surpassed their companions they were Abt's " Dim, and Grey," Lloyd's " A Web Sheet and a Flowing Sea," Bishop's "Breathe My Heart," Reichardt's "Spanish Canzonetta" and '• The Spider and the Fly." The last-named, a humorous composition by Caldecotfc, was redemanded, and a similar compliment was paid to the " Spanish Canzonetta," a charmang solo for baritone with a humming accompaniment', the principal part of. which was artistically sung by Mr P. Hockley v Mr W. A. Day has seldom been, heard to greater advantage than in Pinsuti's. ■ "Bedouin Love Song," and he sang Handel's "Where e'er You Walk," to which he responded to an encore even better. "Truth < Shall Thee Deliver," a melodious song by Blumenthal, served to display the best . features of Mr W. lizard's voice, and his Hinging of "As of Yore," by Mascheroni, gained for Mr H. M. Reeves a re-call, and . [he returned and sang " Come Live With Me, an Elizabethan lyric, set to music by Brown. Ganz's " I Seek for Thee in Every .Flower" suited Mr Collier's pretty tenor voice admirably, and the audience declined :to be satisfied until the singer had returned 'and given Somerset's " Echo," while for his vigorous interpretation of Cherry's " Will-o'-the Wisp » Mr A. Millar received a welldeserved enenre, which he acknowledged hv singing "The King's Minstrel." Mr F. M. Wallace, under whose direction the concert was given, • played, a? a violin solo, Saint-Sfiens's "Introduction et Rondo Oapriccioso," a lovely composition, in the very best style. An encore was, of course, insisted upon, and Mr Wallace returned and played a serenade (by Pierne), an attractive melody for tho muted strings. Ho was accompanied on the piano hy Mr A. F. W. | Bunz, who also played the accompaniments to the vocal solos in a most sympathetic Hanner< . J