Madame Patey's Concert.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6165, 4 June 1891, Page 3

Madame Patey's Concert.

The programme for Madame Patey's concert at the Theitre Boval on Saturday next will include some of the old favorke melodies. Madame Patey will sing the aria,

" O Rest in the Lord," which has charmed audiences wherever the selection has been sung. Of this piece the Auckland Herald critic write 3 :—" Then followad what was undoubtedly the gem of the evening—probably the gem of the concert season—the air, " O Rest in the Lord," from Mendelssohn's grand oratorio " Elijah." Madame Patey on stepping to the stage was received with warm applause, and after the opening notes of the accompaniment had been played, her beautifully-rounded and expressive contralto voice rang out through the hall, and as she proceeded the deep devotional filings with which she invested the grand music of the composer she enthralled the audience, and held them spellbound. But what a burst of applause broke out when she concluded ! The whole audience seemod to be suddenly electrified iuto life. The inevitable encore followed, and was persisted in, and Madame Patoy kindly responded by repeating the whole air from first to last with all the expressive force and aweetnesi which characterised the first performance, and ahe was again applauded to the echo." Knight's well-known "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep " and " Minstrel Boy" (Moore) will also be sung here by Madame Patey. Those assisting Madame Patey are Miss Bertha M. Rossow, soprauo; Mr C. R. Jones, tenor; Mr J. G. Patey, baritone; Miss Kiiiiiia Wood, pianist; and Mr Hermann Morris, accompanist. Mies Rossow, whose voice is a high soprano, will sing

" Call Me Hack" (Denza), Ganz's wellknown and florid "Sing, Sweet Bird," and

■Balie's "Kilarnoy." The N.Z. Herald's critic says :—" Miss Rossow created quite a sensation with Ganz's well known and florid

" Sing, Sweet Bird," so freely embellished by the compost r. r lhe trills, mordentes, and cadenzas were admirable, the modulations and the blending of the regisiers artistic. The unaccompanied part, in which the singer performs some difficult trills and other brilliant feats of vocalisation, was sung with ease, the rapid cadenza towards the cioae using very grace-

ful. The piece admirably suited Miss Roscow's voice, and showed how well controllfid it is. She was recalled, and then sang '' Comin' through the Kye.''' Mr Patey will sing " Honor and Arms" (Samson) Handel, and "I'm off to Philadelphia in tho Morning." Mr C. R. Jones's items are " iVlona" (Adams) and

"Love's Proving." Miss Emilia Wood will play two pianoforte solos, " Concerto in EMinor" (Chopin) and " Lucia di Lammermoor" (Prudent). The ether selections on the programme are:—Trio, " I Navigante " (Randegger), Mies Rossow, Mr Jones, and Mr Patey ; duet, " When the Wind Blows from the" Sea " (Smart), Miss Rossow and Mr Patey ; duet, " O Albion " (Braham), Mr Jones and Mr J. G. Patey.

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