Royal Variety Programme

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30045, 1 February 1963, Page 10

Royal Variety Programme

"The Press" Special Service

DUNEDIN, January 31. Items ranging from the latest popular music to Chopin, from Gilbert and Sullivan to George Gershwin. are in the programme for the Royal variety concert in the

Dunedin Town Hall on February 14. The programme has

been completed and was

announced today. The National Band of New Zealand will open the evening with an overture, “The Hunt.” by K. J. Alford. Vincente Major (soprano) will sing “Romance'’ by Sigmund Romberg, and a negro spiritual. Bill Thomas will play two piano accordion solos, “Pemberton Inn” and “Vel Viso,” and the Doug Caldwell Quartet will play “Seven Come

Eleven.” The quartet will be joined by Coral Cummins, who will sing “Long Ago and Far Away” and “I’ll Remember April.” Bill and Boyd will sing “Swingin’ Together” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” from “Carousel,” by Rodgers and Kammerstein. Then they will sing "Jingle Bell Rock.” Rod Derrett will perform the Peter Sellers’ success, “Any Old Iron," and his own sketch, “Kiwi Express." The tenor, Robin Gordon, will sing Edward German’s “English Rose” and then “Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes,” from “The Gondoliers.” Georgina Smith will play two Chopin pianoforte pieces, a waltz in A flat and Study No. 9. Alan Meldrum will play a Toccata in D minor

by Bach on the Town Hall organ. He will accompany the trumpeter, Ken Smith, in the Trumpet Voluntary. Ronald MacConaghie and Georgina O’Carroll will combine for several duets from musical comedy, including “The Donkey Serenade” from Rudolf Friml’s “Firefly.” Walter Sinton (xylophone) will play with the band and with Miss Margaret Gardiner at the piano. Miss Maureen Kingi will perform with pois. The Howard Morrison Quartet will sing "Virgin Mary,” a modern spiritual, and two Maori songs. Ken Smith will play Hora Staccato (Dinicu-Heifetz) and “Summertime.” from Gershwin’s opera, “Porgy and Bess.” The band will end the programme with Slavonic Rhapsody No. 1 by Friedman and Urbach’s’ “Through Bolts and Bars.”