COSSACKS' VISIT.
Folk songs, love songs and eoldi«rs\ songs, interspersed with dancee of a spectacular and exciting nature, are included in the repertoire of the Don Cossack Choir, which will open a season at His Majesty's Theatre on September 4 In Wellington, Christehurch and Dunedin its receptions have been most enthusiastic Southern critics acclaimed it as one of the most brilliant combinations of its kind i that have visited New Zealand. "Under the baton of Nicholas Koatrukoff" (wrote one reviewer, "the choir is delicately balanced and so responsive to the conductor's demands tha.t it sounds like one great unit of sound, yet with a blend of harmony that is almost perfection." Choral music is handled with great feeling as well, according to those who have heard the choir. The ( most popular item in its repertoire, at least with audiences in the south, appears to be the famous "Volga Boatman," which it renders with all the passion and tenderness of the Cossack temperament.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 10
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