CELEBRITY CONCERT

Evening Star, Issue 23029, 6 August 1938, Page 20

CELEBRITY CONCERT

TUESDAY NIGHT'S EVENT A further stage in the Dunedin Choral Society’s seventy-fifth anniversary celebrations will be reached on Tuesday night, when the Town Hall will be the scene of a celebrity concert, at which a large number of Dunedin’s prominent artists will be appearing. This function will, in all probability, prove the most popular attraction or the current festival, and concert-goers are assured of a rare treat on Tuesday night. The Madrigal Club is to open ’and close the concert with an interesting selection of part songs. This enthusiastic section of the Choral Society has, under Mr Alfred Walmsley’s guidance, achieved a high standard in its exploitation of the smaller choral forms, and on this occasion the club will present interesting part songs by such contemp'orary composers as Markham Lee, Thomas Wood, Percy Fletcher, and Roger Quilter. The most important soloist of the evening will be Mrs A. R. Mac Andrew, nee Miss Jennie West, now of Auckland. Mrs Mac Andrew is the honoured guest of the present festival. A daughter of Mr G. R. West, one of the society’s original conductors, she was pianist to the society in 1878, and conducted it in a performance of Handel’s ‘ Messiah ’ in 1891. On Tuesday she will appear in piano solos. The list of soloists is an impressively interesting one, and they have all given their services as a tribute to the society. The vocalists will be Mrs N. R. Henderson and Misses Betty Pocock, Bertha Rawlinson, Ruth Miller, Alison Tyrie, Meda Paine, and Dorothy Mackay, as well as Messrs Ernest Short, Alfred Walmsley. Lex Macdonald, Wilfred Kershaw, Arthur Macdonald, and Rowland Dunbar. During the evening piano solos will be given by Mrs H. C. Campbell and Mr Max Scherek, and violin solos by Miss Ethel Wallace (leader of the society’s symphony orchestra) and Miss Julia Holmes. Mr Max Scherek is a son of Herr Benno Scherek, ono of the most distinguished of the society’s former conductors. Such a galaxy of talent as has been assembled will no doubt _ attract an unusually large gathering, and intending patrons are urged to avail themselves of the booking arrangements, particulars of which are advertised. Attention is also drawn to the final " concert of modern works, which is set down for next Saturday night.