ROYAL DUNEDIN MALE CHOIR

Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 15

ROYAL DUNEDIN MALE CHOIR

MONDAY NIGHT'S CONCERT For the last occasion on which Dr V. E. Galway will act as conductor of the Royal Dunedin Male Choir on Monday- evening in the Town Hall, he has chosen an exceptionally fine programme. The songs are varied so that they will show the choir at its best. Commencing with ‘ Hymn Before Action,’ the rousing poem of Rudyard Kipling from ‘ The Seven Seas,’ set to martial music, a duet by Sarjeant is to be sung by Messrs Rowland and Leslie Dunbar, and Mr John W. G. Pringle will contribute a bass solo. Nelson’s ‘ Windmill.’ A bracket of three songs will follow from the choir —‘ Lonely Woods,’ a new air from ‘ Amadis ’ (Lully), ‘Sigh No More, Ladies ’ (arr. Dunhill), and ‘The Old Woman’ (Roberton). Miss Ruth D. Sell will present two songs—‘ There Was An Aged Monarch ’ (Rubenstein) and ‘ The Tryst ’ (Greig)—and Mr Colin Oliver will render a piano solo, ‘ Sonatine ’ (Ravel). The first part of the programme will be concluded with a glee, ‘ The Clond-capp’d Towers,’ and a new patriotic folk song by Toivo Kuala, ‘ Song of Freedom.’ Another new song from Shakespeare’s ‘ Winter’s Tale,’ hy C. Lee Williams, and a Hebridean folk song of Roberton’s introduces the second part, when Mr Alfred Walmsley will sing ‘ The Queen of Sheba’ (Gounod). Bracketed items by the choir will follow —‘ Come, Gentle Night ’ (Brynon) and the bright folk song ‘ Bobby Shaftoe ’ (Whittaker). ‘Mad Bess’ (Purcell) will he Miss Ruth D. Sell’s second l contribution. Two quartets will be rendered by Messrs Kennedy, Inglis, Pringle, and Dunbar. The final number of this collection of items will be ‘ Jerusalem,’ by C. Hubert H. Parry, the organ being played by Mr T. Vernon Griffiths. Patrons are advised that the box plans are at Begg’s,