VERSE-SPEAKING CHOIR.

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1936, Page 4

VERSE-SPEAKING CHOIR.

The Wellington Verse-speaking Choir will give its second recital of the season in the Blue Triangle Hall tonight. 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.. 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 rrioSern American, Carl Sandburg. In addition, . Miss Molly Atkinson will sing*. Mr. R. B. O'Brien will sing three of his original compositions. Mr. Bert Hickford will sing negro songs. Miss . Joan Raine will present a skirt dance, and Miss Joyce Oliver a character dance and a modern German dance; The choir is under the direction of Mr; W. J. Mountjoy, jun. •