LEECH LYRIC CHOIR

Evening Star, Issue 20263, 26 August 1929, Page 7

LEECH LYRIC CHOIR

It »is over eighty years ago since Vincent Wallace’s ‘Montana’ was first produced at Drury Lane, London, and it still has a strong hold with British peoples all over the world. Its solos are known the world over, _ and tha opera has an inexhaustible vein of tonefulness. Although Wallace wrote many others, ‘Maritana’ is brimful of melody and opportunity for vocal effect unknown in many works of the present day, and the story is quite interesting. It is good to reflect, and it takes tha old people’s minds back to past performances of such stars as Miss Fanny Moody, in the name part, Joseph O’Mara, and Barton M'Gukin, as the dashing Don Cmsar, Charles Manners as the intriguing Don Jose. Both Zelie De Luggan and Marie Alexandra left memories of ‘ Alas, Those Chimes,’ ‘ The Harp in the Air,’ ‘ Scenes That Are Brightest,’ ‘There is a Flower That Bloometh,’ * In Happy Moments,’ and ‘ Let Mo Like a Soldier Fall.’ His Majesty’s Theatre on August 27 should be taxed to hold the people, old and young, who desire to hear these melodic gems. Mr Leech’s student choir of 100 voices will have the support of a fall concert orchestra. Booking arrangements will be found in another column*