VERSE-SPEAKING CHOIR.

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 11

VERSE-SPEAKING CHOIR.

The Wellington Verse-speaking Choir will give its second recital of the season in the Blue Triangle Hall tomorrow night. The poems to be spoken range from a Psalm and a Greek chorus to the "Daniel Jazz." Particularly interesting is the group of poems by Vachel Lindsay, who has been called the twentieth century minstrel. The choir will speak two of his light whimsical poems, "The Proud Mysterious Cat" and "Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be," a passionate poem on a social theme, "The Leaden-eyed," and two studies of negro psychology, "Congo" and "The Daniel Jazz." Another group of unusual interest is a bracket of three poems on a similar theme each treated in a different style by a seventeenth century Japanese poet, Basho, by Byron, and by the modern American. Carl Sandburg. A Psalm, a Greek chorus from "Iphigenia in Tauris," two old Christmas poems, and poems by Keats, Walter de la Mare, Chesterton, Crosbie Garsten, and Eileen Duggan will also be spoken. In addition, Miss Molly Atkinson will sing. Mr. B. R. O'Brien will sing three of his original compositions, Mr. Bert Hickford will sing n-<;ro songs, Miss Joan Raine will present a skirt dance, and Miss Joyce Oliver a character story and a modern German dance. The choir is under tho direction of Mr. W. J. Mountjoy, jun.