RETURNED SOLDIERS' CHOIR

Evening Star, Issue 21880, 17 November 1934, Page 10

RETURNED SOLDIERS' CHOIR

When nohie deeds hold the stage of history and lofty ideas have captured a nation’s imagination, no department ■of life responds to their influence more than that of music and literature, this great expression of feeling of creative imagination in all passionate and mirthful aspects and circumstances of life. The Returned Soldiers’ Choir, born in national stress and flourishing in ipeace, will celebrate its fiftieth jubilee concert on November 27. There can lie only one jubilee for the time will surely come when the unknown will take toll, and this event is just a memorable page in Otago history. Messages from Fieldmarshal Sir W. R. Birdwood, Majorgeneral Sir Andrew Russell, the Royal Male Choir, the president of the Returned Soldiers’ Association, , and Colonel Muir will he included in the souvenir programme. Special tributes by the army and navy will in paeans of song be paid to the ex-soldiers. Miss Anita Winkel will deliver the jubilee oration to the ‘ Men and Women of Greater Britain.’ The first pianist, conductor. and soloist, Messrs Charles Martin, Paget Gale, and Airs Wilfred Andrews will appear. Lady soloists from Wellington, Canterbury, 'Southland, and Otago who have appeared at past concerts will combine to form a ladies’ choir, accompanied by string players who have also played for tne choir. Eight brilliant pianists from the Barth School of Music will, on four grand pianos, play Liszt’s ‘Rhapsody No. 2.’ Lieiitenant Napier’s trumpeters will infuse a militant note. Miss Sybil Baker will ho the accompanist, and Air John T. Leech will direct.