AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 11 September 1935, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

A GREAT SINGER. MURIEL BR UNSKILL COMING. Madame Muriel Buinskii’, English contralto-, comes here with the reputation oi being not only the most artistic contralto who has visited the Southern Hemisphere for a quarter of a century, but the most versatile. Her programmes include Grand Opera arias, a wonderful selection of Lieder, Scotch traditional songs, a big array of English art' songs quaiut little numbers of the nursary rhyme order, old-world English songs and many beautiful French compositions. Commenting on Madame Brunskil ’s versatility, the ‘‘Australian Musical News*’ said: “A ong and diversified programme was submitted in which not only the style or interpretation but that of produe tion was modelled to suit what was being sung, and even as in the opening operatic group to mark the intrinsic difference between Ponchielli and Mozart. hearing the shattering majesty o! Hoist’s ‘ 1 Maruts” or Schubert’s ’Cross ist Jehovah” one would have deemed it impossible lor lie singer to adapt herself completely and delightfully to the whimsical nursery rhyme style of Vaughan Wiliams' “Water Mil” and Armstrong G'bbs’ “F vp Eyes.” or to the shuddering horror of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” but it was so done in a fashion beyond criticism. Madame Brunskill’s Greymouth concerts arc booked for September 17th and 19th.