PETER DAWSON’S THRILL
- SINGS TO 15,000 IN WALES. LONDON, Aug. 10. Mr Peter Dawson, the Australian baritone, told the Sun’s soecial representative that he had tTie greatest thrill of his lifetime when singing to an .audience of 15,000 people at the Welsh Eisteddfod at Pontyfoll. “Previously my largest audience consisted of 6000 Maoris/'’ he said. “The Welsh audience was accommodated in the world’s largest portable building. It costs £4OOO to erect each year. It is built in sections, and the wooden floor and huge platform for the big choruses are erected on the gentle slope of a hill. “Everybody was able to see, and with microphones on the stage and loud speakers placed at intervals everybody heard my softest notes. It was the most remarkable organised song festival I have attended, and the enthusiasm was thrilling. 'Mr Robert Radford, Mr John Coates, and myself were the only non-Welsh singers.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 August 1924, Page 7
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