A tribute to the memory of Enrico Caruso, the great tenor, is to be paid on Siuiday afternoon by musical people of the city. The chair will be taken by Mr. A. E. Batfc (Chief Orphan of the Orphans' Club), and vocal solos will be contributed by Signor Lucien Cesaroni, Mr. Herbert F. Wood, 'Mrs. J. F. Woodward, Miss Teresa M'Enroe, and Mr. Harold Whittle. Miss Gladys Watson will play Chopin's Marche Funebre. A short address on Caruso will be read by the chairman, the Lyric Quartette will contribute an ' appropriate item, and the voice of th« departed tenor will be heard (through the medium of the gramophone) in Mas-, senet's "Elegie" (with violin obbligato by Mischa Blrnan). Mr. Alexander Watr son, the English elocutionist, has consented to recite Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." No charge will be "made for admission, .i : Messrs. Vine and Wilson will ecll furnituie at the Marine-parade,. Seatoun, at 2i. p.m. to-morrow, and on I Monday at Potone.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 37, 12 August 1921, Page 8
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