BESSIE DOYLE TO-NIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 2 April 1894, Page 2

BESSIE DOYLE TO-NIGHT.

The interest aroused in to-night's performance at the City Hall portends a greab musical event. Quite a rush for reserved seats has taken place at Messrs Wildnian and Lyell's, and already nearly the whole of the dress circle has been taken. The management are taking every precaution to ensure tho comfort of the great audience which will be present. An extra staff of ushers has been engaged, and one thousand seats have been set apart at the very moderate rate of one shilling. The doors will be opened ab seven o'clock. The reserved seats may be had during all today at tho booking office and also to-night ab the doors. In honour of the event the Auckland young Ladies' Orchestra, forty strong, will take part in the perform* ance, and will play among other pieces the famous intermezzo from " Cavalleria llusticana." Miss Doyle is under requisition for quite a casket of gems, euch as the Wienawski polonaise, the "Air Varie," of Vieuxtemps (by special request), the grand Mendelssohn concerto (in which she will be accompanied on this occasion by Miss Keeve), "Ye Banks and Braes," " The Bluebells of Scotland " and " Home, Sweeft Home," the vocal parts of the latter being taken by Mies Birch and Mr Mackenzie. The i Toung Ladies Orchestra will be seated on the stage, and at the conclusion the whole ensemble will sing the National Anthem. The Cale> donian Society will attend in force and Mr Mackenzie will sing the songs of Scotland in his inimitable style among them being " Bonnie Dundee,'' "Hatne Cam Our Guidman " and "The Laird o1 Cockpen." The whole programme is a well selected and eminently popular one, and exceptional interest attaches to the event. There is parfecb unanimity of opinion that no artiste who has ever visited New Zealand better deserved the di?tinction of such a demonstration as that which will surely be witnessed to-night, and it will be a sincere and general regret should Bessie Doyle not find it possible to return to Auckland ere her departure for America. Ibis nob too much to say that she has touched the heart and stirred the soul of everyone who has listened to her.