DEATH STOPS A SINGER
COT,LAPSE DURING SOLO
Total eclipse. No sun, no moon; All dark, all dark, amidst the blaze of noon.
Aiteu singing these opening words of the tenor solo “Total Eclipse rom Handel’s oratorio “Samson,- *_r Alec Campbell, of Southampton, collapsed at the Southampton Music To - Son March 11. He died later-m hospital. . , Mr Campbell’s mother was m the audience and she saw him lean over the piano andi fall to the -platform. She was the first to reach his side. Sir Hugh Robertson, conductor of the Glasgow Orpheus CboiEwho was fudging the competition- had just written a note on his marking -sheet: “Had a certain, dignity,” when j r Campbell collapsed. ' , , An official of the festival said that everyone in the audience thought Air Campbell had fainted. After he In been carried ' out the competitio -proceeded. Air Campbell, who wasi 26, was injured in a motoring accident a fortnight previously.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11955, 27 May 1933, Page 9
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