MUSICAL AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 144, 19 June 1891, Page 2

MUSICAL AUCKLAND.

(BY TELEGEAPH —OWN REPORTER.)

Wellington, this day. ■' Madame Patey, in the course of an inteN view at the close of her Wellington tour.i was asked to give her impressions of NW Zealand so far as she had seen it. She said. in reply, that owing to Mr Patey's illness, she had been unable to ccc so much ot the country as she intended to visit, but what! she had been permitted 60 ccc waa certainly very beautiful. She thinks the scenery and natural resources of the Nortb-, Island should make it a great attraecionfor tourists and others. Travelling" in tho 1 middle of winter MadamePatey found somewhat severe, but this was more than compensated by the warmth of her audiences. Their musical discrimination was very greatJ, indeed, and that the people are a musicloving people she thinks goes v/ithoub saying, as witness the large houses her concerts have drawn night after night, •, In Auckland particularly Madame Patey j was struck by the great warmth shown, the \ people crowding to the City aud Choral j Halls night after night, and appreciating ■ not only the eiaiple ballads they had learned to love from their youth, but aiso j the classical and. more severe style.