“THE MESSIAH”
Handel's masterpiece, "The Messiah, ’’ wears wonderfully well, and though it is given every year it is still received by the whole world with enthusiasm and expectation. The performance by the Royal Wellington Choral Union will lake phn-e iu the Town Hall on Saturday next, Di-eeiu-bcr .18, under the direction of .Mr, Stanley Oliver, who will have a chorus and orchestra of 350 under his baton. This performance will mark the reopening of the Town Hall, when nt 8 o’clock, the mayor, Mr. Hislop, will make a few remarks regarding the fiftieth presentation of the great oratorio by Hie choral union, and at the same time declare the Town Hall open again for public performances. A strong east, of soloists Ims boon engaged. liieliiding Miss Uosnloen Hiekinoll (soprnnnl, Wellington. The contralto solos will bo taken by 'Miss Colleen Ch,ill’s, Auckland, who will make her first appear.-im-e in Wellington. The lemir rind buritono parts will bi- sung by Messrs. ’I bonins West. <'lirislelniroll, and Russell, .1, L’luri-iison. Iliioodin. Tin- box pl.-ui will open nt. the D.I.C. on Tuesday next, at 9 o'clock.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 65, 11 December 1943, Page 3
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182“THE MESSIAH” Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 65, 11 December 1943, Page 3
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