MUSICAL RECOGNITION.

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 June 1906, Page 3

MUSICAL RECOGNITION.

At one of To Rangi I’ai’s concerts at .Masterton last week, the local paper said the fact is that in To Raugi Pai we have a contralto of whom any country might he reasonably proud. Her talent is of a kind which does not invite, hut which compels the highest appreciation. Its qualities are of the highest order. The auditor is impressed most perhaps by the organ-likc lone, which in all its ranges Tills the building to its remotest part with resounding melody; yet purity and sweetness are just as apparent in the wonderful gift of song with which Tc Raugi is endowed. Her management and control of her voice is evidence that she has overcome the dilTiculties of technique. Withal, the artist has a simplicity of manner, an easy grace, and a commanding presence. Her enunciation, too, must lie mentioned as being almost perfect. Referring to our townsman, Mr Cadzow, the same journal says: Tc Rangi Pai and Mr Cadzow were associated in the duct, “Home to Our Mountains,” while later on Mr Cadzow, the tenor of the company, quite took the audience by storm. He sang first the song, “Nirvana,” and later the well-known, but difficult “March ofy the Cameron Mon,” receiving a treble encore, and giving in response the tuneful “Long ago in Alcala.”