PLATOFF'S DON COSSACKS.
A unique musical treat will be offered Auckland audiences when PlatofT's Don Cossack choir opens its season at His Majesty's Theatre on Saturday, September 4. The troupe has talents not only for singing but for dancing as well. Over 18,000 people in Wellington saw the Cossacks, under conductorehip of Nicholas Kostrukoff, give their thrilling national dances. They are delivered with all the vim and passion inherent in the Cossack temperament, and yet with a tenderness at times that is most pleasing. Among the dances will be the sword dance, in which knives are manipulated with startling skill. The choir's repertoire of songs is an extremely wide and varied one, including as it does folk songs, soldier songs, love songs and all manner of other songs. Harmonic effects obtained by the conductor are stated to be something superior to anything that has yet been heard in I New Zealand.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 15
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151PLATOFF'S DON COSSACKS. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 15
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