RETURNED SOLDIERS' CHOIR

Evening Star, Issue 21193, 29 August 1932, Page 8

RETURNED SOLDIERS' CHOIR

The outstanding item on the programme which will bo presented by the Returned Soldiers’ Association Choir at its concert on _ Wednesday will be a number of selections from ‘ II Trovatore.’ ‘ The Magic Flute ’ ‘ Rosamund,’ and ‘ The Mount of Olives, together with the stirring dramatic cantata ‘ Salamis,’ will also be special features. The scena from ‘II Trovatore is, no doubt, the most favoured in all opera, and it includes the famous duets 1 Ah, I Have Sighed to Rest Me and < Home to Our Mountains.’ Miss Eva Scott will make a welcome reappearance in the part of Leonora, with W. N. Satterthwaite as Mannco. Mr Charles 11. Williamson, a fine tenor from Christchurch, will be heard in that delightful aria fromu ‘ Hiawatha, ‘ Onaway, Awake, Beloved.’ Miss Eva Scott will also sing several choice selections. An instrumental quartet from the Kaikorai Band will play sevenil numbers, and Mr Stan Jeffs will be heard in an aria, and the baritone soloist in the cantata ‘ Salamis ’ will he Mr Les Barron. The choir will also sing several old favourites, including ‘ The Recruit,’ with Mr George Anseli as soloist. Mr John Leech will conduct, and Mr T. Kirk-Burnnand will he the accompanist.