WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19787, 27 November 1929, Page 9

WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.

FAREWELL VISIT. CIVIC. TO-NIGHT. Mr Edward Branscotnbe and his Westminster Glee Singers arrive ir. Christchurch this afternoon from the south to commence a farewell season at the Civic Theatre this evening. The success of their tour is an answer to those critics who claim that people in this age will have nothing but "canned muMc and Jan. The Westminster Glee dingers can ling. but they do more- than sir;. They know how to fins so ,h;it th€ ' ; ' song* Villi fir.d an ai.-swer in the bre»«'» '■£ a largo percentage of the population whenever tfc?y go. And rfcry also know the type of song to s'ng. It'= the old E'ory of "knowing how." --The Song? of < >ur Forefathers" i* an apt title to their programmes. And what charm those son;:?. p"_--se*-: They repre«ei.t all thut w:.- Lite itself in those far-off davs. And yet they live beraiiff- they come from the Iw.rt and uot merely from the brain, as so much modern mu«i<! does. In a letter to Mr Gladstone Hill, who is .T-tit.? as local dire-'or, Mr Urs.n.-'-onbo -3>s that their programmes will runt'.it: gems ncwr !/ef-.r« heard in rf.i* country. In I'anr-din thf- cave eleven '<m«rt< on their wi,y to Inv.-rcirgill. and th*n three on their return north. Christchurch co'ild .inly ha-.-j four .-« the. w;«y touth and ns-i- thr-e are advertised for the return and farewell series. The plan i« now cp»-!i a: Th"_K">Jol. Jiri.j will he at the Civic from Tiv* i-'l:->--'k