C.T. MALE VOICE CHOIR

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1929, Page 5

C.T. MALE VOICE CHOIR

The Concert Chamber held a large audience on Saturday night, when the ' Commercial Travellers' Male Voice Choir gave • the final concert of the 1929 season. The programme chosen was varied and~ interesting, and the choral singing was of a very high standard. In fact, the singers excelled themselves, under the. baton of Mr. H. Temple White. Encores were frequent and the soloisfs were all received with acclamation. They were Miss Alma Clegg, soprano, whose choice was Mallinson's delightful "Daybreak." Later she sang "Song of the Open/ and for both was recalled. Mr. A. E. Coe, tenor, sang German's "English Rose," from "Merrie England," and was encored, and Mr. A. G. Flanagan, baritone, pleased with "When the King Went Forth to War,' and also had to reappear. Mr. Desmond Lavin's playing of the violin solo of ' Sarasate, "Gypsy Airs," thoroughly deserved the insistent recall demanded. The choir's big effort was the cantata, "King Olafs Christmas" (Dudley Buck), which was sung with a fine intelligence. The soloists were Messrs. Egerton Pegg and S. R. Rodger. Mr. Pegg was also tho soloist in a musical jest in the form of Italian grand opera, the part song, "Italian Salad," which was excellently presented and had to be repeated. Other part songs were "My Love is like a Red, Red Rose," "The Two Snails" (encored), "Hope, the Hornblower," Hegar's "Phantom's Host" (with its martial air tinged with the sadness of death), and the evergreen "Annie Laurie," in which Mr. W. A. Wilson'was soloist. This had to be repeated. The final chorus, "The Widow's Party" (Grainger), embodied the words of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's "Barrack Room Ballads," and had a piano duet accompaniment by Messrs. W.-A. Gatheridge (hon. pianist to the choir) and Clem Howe. Mrs. M. Davidson was also an accompanist for some of the solos. The concert mubt stand among the best efforts of the talented, body of men who have done so much towards the musical education and enjoyment of Wellington's music-lovers.