DUNEDIN MALE CHOIR

Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 11

DUNEDIN MALE CHOIR

Tho time of merry Christinas draws nearer, and the - third concert of this popular organisation for 1935, to'be held in the Town Hall on Monday, December 2, will have Christmas features, A boy soprano, in the person of Master Herbert Claridge, will sing ‘ The Holy Child ’ (Easthopo Martin), the words of which are by Martin Luther. The lad has a clear, ringing voice, and in his item with the choir, 1 Good King Wencoslns,’ is heard to great advantage, the tenor sole in this piece being taken by Mr Robert A. Mitchell. This carol is bracketed with another fine arrangement of Dr Galway’s for his choir, ‘ When Christ Was Born of Mary,’ Luther’s Christmas Eve ’

(Marchent) is a beautiful part song for choir providing a solo for Miss Maud Giles. She will be heard also in ‘ Tho Echo ’ to a flute obbligato by Mp Reginald Bell. Miss Margaret Beattie, from Central, has a bracket of songs of Miss Marjory Kennedy-Fraser—‘ An Island Shelling Song ’ and ‘ A Hebridean Sea Reiver’s Song.’ Choir soloists are Mr G. Johnston (baritone), who presents a bracket of items—air from ‘ Amadis,’ by Lully, and ‘ Sea Fever • (Ireland), and Mr Edward R. Benton, whose ottering is the recitative and aria from, the opera ‘ Simon Boceanegra ’ (Verdi). New choir/ part songs ara Handel’s ‘ Sound An Alarm ’ and ‘ My Pretty Jane,’ an arrangement by Arnold Williams of the familiar old song. Maunder’s ‘ Song of the Northmen,’ “Beethoven’s ‘Hallelujah, Power and Glory,’ and the delightful sea_ chanty ‘ Shenandoah ’ are other choir contributions. The two gifted pianists who charmed their hearers at the last concert, Misses Marjorie M'Dowell and Ruth Moore, have again promised to play a duet.