VOCAL RECITAL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1923, Page 3

VOCAL RECITAL

MES, CLINTON HUNT. Assisted by two other accomplished musical artists, Mrs. Clinton Hunt gave? a delightful vocal recital at the Town 1 Hall Concert Chamber last evenin g. Mrs. Hunt has a soprano voice of singular purity and clarity, which she uses to the best advantage in all classes of song. Not often does one have the opportunity of hearing a vocalist who 13 so versatile, and so wholly satisfying in ballad, operatic excerpt, and lyric alike. , In English, French, and' Ital an songs, Mrs. Hunt was equally "artistic I in enunciation, expression, and. phrasing. The vocal programme was an ex-. acting and lengthy one, and excellently' arranged in groups.' Opening, with lluee Elizabethan' lyrics, Mrs.- : Hunt sam; with charming grace, "Have You Seen but a White Lily Grow" (Anon)/"Rosalind's .Madrigal" (arranged. A.L.)j r and ; 'Spring" (Henschel). The "." followed"----three, refreshing Italian songs—"Pur | dieesti" (Lotti), '-'Non so Piu,".' from ! the "Marriage, of Figaro" .-(Mozart), and "Bolero" (Verdi), and three.special requests, self-accompanied—PuroeU's "Passing By," the old French son; Void Noel;" and "The Starling" (Liza Lehmannj. Early in the recital Mrs. Hunt announced that she would not respond to encores .till ' later in the evening, on account of the length ' of the programme, but she was obliged to reappear at this stage,. in. ■ deference to the plaudits; of the audience, Hvith a_ request number, "She 'Wore a ; wreath' of Roses." 'Other groups were i four traditional 1 songs,' two' eighteenth | century French, three' modern-French, and three modern English. "The'recitalopened with a delightful little French chanson, "Le Bonheur est Chose Lesere" (Saint Saens), with violin accompaniment, > by. Miss Ava Symons. As soloist, the violinist played with strong technique and excellent power and tone the open- ! ing movement of Halo's "Spanish Symphony"—"Allegro non Tropp.o." .Miss Symons was twice recalled with much enthusiasm, and favoured first with DAmbrosio's "Canzonetta" "and': the haunting "Londonderry Air." Later iii the programme she was again heard in the^ Bach-Gounod "Aye Maria. :t Madame Evelyn de Mauny^ -was a:tho; • oughly. artistic accompanist; , •.'