GERTRUDE JOHNSON CONCERT TO-MORROW.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4015, 15 June 1920, Page 5

GERTRUDE JOHNSON CONCERT TO-MORROW.

The delightful experience of hearing ' tivo concert artists avlio are at the best part of their careers, musically, is to be afforded to the residents of Feilding and district in the Drill Hall to-inorroA-v, when Miss Gertrude Johnson, the brilliant young Australian operatic soprano, and Mr Horace Hunt, the Auckland musician and pianist, ivill give a concert of unusual merit. Miss Johnson will sing excerpts from various operas, «s Avell as numbers of tbe popular type. Her last appearance in tho Dominion ivas made as one of the J. C. AA T illiamson Grand Opera Company early this year. In Mr "Horace Hunt, the .promoters of the tour have secured an artist avlio was clever before be left for Europe in 1913. During his internment in a German camp as a prisoner of war, and after, lvliilo be resided in London and other parts of Britain, he had innumerable fine opportunities of perfecting himself in his art, and ivith studying tho methods of some of the greatest musicians of the older world. His experience in that ivas broadened to a remarkable extent, and Avhere he Avas before a qualified exponent of tho piano, be bad returned with a gift in that direction which few artists in Now Zealand-can lay claim to. Also contributing to tho pleasure of those who tire aviso enough to attend the series Avill be Mr Charles Russell, one of Australia's lending flautists; and the accompanist is Mr Eric Waters. The box plan for the concert is at D'Anvers.