MISS JESSIE MACLACHLAN

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 359, 2 September 1907, Page 2

MISS JESSIE MACLACHLAN

THJS DISTINGUISHED SCOTTISH ! SOPRANO. | To bear Miss Maclachlan sing "Comin 1 thro' the Rye" and "Wbis. tie and I'll oome tae y« my Lad," it would appear to her hearers as though that was the acme of singing. It is only when she changes her musical mood and becomes a Scottish Brtinhilde singing 'Bonny Blue Bonnets," "Scots Wha BW* and ' A ! Hundred Fipers" that the audience | recognises what a supren ely artistw . singer she is. The great charm about j Miss Machehlan's singing is her ibi- j lity to ider.tify herself most thor- j oughly with the peculiar character of ' the song. she may be singing. Who ; ther it is a crocking Highland crad'e . song, or a call to the clans to tak* up j arms, she is equally successful. Iv addition to Miss Maclachlan the | umpany has been strengthened by ■ the inciwion of Mr Douglas Young, the Scottish tenor of whom repi.rt speaks rery highly. , He is said to • possess a perfectly trained tenor I voice, capable of giving with equal ; force any style of music from ballad to the warlike "McGregcr's Gather j ing." Mr John McLinden will play ■; a number of his most popular 'ce'l«- < solos, including that jpmderful piere ) from his own per.— Fantasia on B? »t * tish melodies-^which includes "With- I in a Mile,' "Flora McDonald's L* • ffient" and the "Barren Rocks." jugg Robert Buchanan acts as acoomntfj^H and musioait director.