BALM FOR BLUES
t —-O ———- SONG LEADER’S VIEWS. > “I think New Zealanders will take ’ to community singing,” said Air. Cyril , Alee, who was in Greymouth on the ; Chautauqua circuit. “In Adelaide , r to-day over 2000 people attend the , : midday ‘sings.’ ” During his tour of the Dominion, j l Air. Alee has endeavoured to awaken interest in community singing, ~ with ( the result that on April sth, Welling- j ton, under his direction, will 1 mencean organised “lunch-hour sing.” , , The plan in America is to get crowds ; together singing popular tunes during the lunch hour. And, after an hour, they go back to their shops, their offices, their packing workrooms, their brickyards. That is community singing. . . f Community singers do not sing jazz, but popular ballads such as “lill the >Sands of the Desert Grow Cold, “Al other Alachree,” “On the Banks oi Allan Water,” and so on- Should £ community singing prove a success in the cities, Greymouth will probably t have its “lunch-hour sing” too.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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