MR WATKIN MILLS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12869, 22 September 1904, Page 2

MR WATKIN MILLS.

A song recital will be given by Afr Watkin Mills, the English basso, id tlie r Jiieatro Royal on Thursday, tho 29th instant, when he will be assisted by Mr Eduard Parlovitz, the Polish pianist.

A man of splendid physique, and of marked personality. Mr Walkin Mills has the necessary qualities to enhance Hie oiled of his magnificent and robust voice. Mr Mills stands to-day in the front rank of his profession. Tim demand for his services as an exponent of the great oratories, with numerous operas, cantatas and works of a lighter order, Jms not been confined to Great Britain. fie lias visited Canada and the United States no fewer limn eight times, and wherever he sang he con* qncrod. Air Parlovitz i> an Englishman of Polisli descent, horn and educated in London, where Ids father and uncle, frienda of Hubinstein, resided after leaving (heir own country. Always showing a talent for music, the litUo J.Vrlovitz was sent to the Guildhall School of Music unusually early. Ho W’as the youngest student who ever secured the assocudeship of (hat institution, a feat which lie accomplished when between twelve and tturteen years of age. His first tour as pianist was with the late Mine. Antoinette Sterling’s company five years ago. Mr Parlovitz has twice loured Canada and the United St res with Air Ali'ls, and hns appeared throughout England with Mmc. Alice Esty and the Meislersingers.