GREAT SINGER’S VISIT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 8, 4 October 1935, Page 3

GREAT SINGER’S VISIT

In the presence of their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Galway, Madame Muriel Brunskill will give her first concert in Wellington next Wednesday night at the Town Hall. Wellington is practically the last place in the great English singer's itinerary, owing .Io the difficulty of obtaining suitable dates at the Town Hall, and Wellington music-lovers’ appetites have been whetted by the reports of this glorious contralto's artistry. After her second Christchurch concert. Ernest Jenner in the “Press” bestowed a column of praise on Madame Brunskill, in the course owhich he wrote: —"Tlie highest artistry, excellent musicianship, and a glorious voice-—these are the attributes of the work of Madame Muriel Brunskill ; and included in these are meant details such as exactness of intonation, a living imagination directing endless inflection of tone and an articulation of such perfection that the listener loses not so much as a syllable of the words of her songs. . . . Occasions of hearing such mature interpretations of great and finely-chosen songs are far too rare in this land, distant from the home country that is now so musically living.” . . Madame Brunskill’s associate-artist, is Carl Bartling, a gifted Melbourne pianist, who has been receiving splendid criticisms i for his solo work as well as for his accompaniments.