WILLIAM HEUGHAN

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 53, 5 March 1925, Page 10

WILLIAM HEUGHAN

MUCH VARIED PROGRAMME.

Mr. William Heughan, the Scottish dramatic basso, opened his return sea-' Bon at tho Town Hall laßt evening in the presence of Their Excellencies, Sir Charles Fergusson and Lady Alice Fergusson, and a large, but 1 not too large, and most appreciative audience. Mr. Heughan, who has come to New Zealand under the auspices of the Burns Federation^ London, sings, it would seem after hearing his programmes, first to bring to Scots—and others—the fine old tradi: tional and folk songs and ' ballads of Scotland; and, secondly, because he very evidently enjoys liis work, and since he finds his singing so enjoyable —he is naturally a generous singer—arid, within reason, refuses no demands for more. But he does not confine his numbers solely to those of Scotland, for his very wide repertoire includes also the songs of England and operatic arias. His programmes are much varied, arid in each item are most enjoyable. He has ho exaggerated mannerisms, and would no doubt prefer to hear himself described, and quite rightly, as a singer who appeals to his audiences as being merely the best singer of very, many, and not an artist whose art has been carried, to such fine> points that the charm of simplicity is lost. "' Mr. Heughan's singing will appeal to all Scotsmen and to all others. Some of his numbers last evening were "The; Pibroch o' D'onuil Dhu," "Scots Wha.Ha'e," "Corn Rigs," "The Laird o* Cockpen," "The Tinker's Waddin'," "The Wraith" (Schubert), "Yeomen of England," "Dashing Away With a Smoothing Iron," "Oh, No, John" (Old Somerset), "When \the Kye Gomes Hame," "Zummerzetzhire," •''Wi' a Hundred Pipers," "Volga Boatr men's Song," "Home is Calling" (Alfred Hill), and the more sarioas numbers "Suore'che ripoaate" (from Meyerb'eer's "Roberto il Diavolo") and "O Isis and Osiris" (from Mozart's "Magic Flute"). Mr. Hyman Lenzer,. violinist, repeated the success he had achieved on his first visit, his numbers last evening including Bach s "Air on G "String," "Praeludium and Allegro" (Puguaui-Kreisler), "Liebesfreud" i(Kreisler), "Gipsy Airs" (Sarasate), "Humoresque" . (Dvorak), "Traumerei" (Schumann), and "Canzonetta !> (D'Ambrosio). Miss Gladys Sayer's piano solos were most acceptable, and she again showed her talent as an able and sympathetic accompanist. . ; There will be another concert this evening, and the final one takes place on Saturday. . .