CONCERT.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 163, 15 January 1896, Page 2

CONCERT.

The Cburcb of England concert last night at the Pukeroa Hall was an undoubted success botli from a musical point of view and in the matter of attendance. '•s The stage decorations, thanks to Mrs f (iinders and the other ladies who made this matter their 1 study, were chaste and striking, and removed much of the unsiglitliness which has so repellant an effect on visitors to this hall. Although it may be invidious to draw comparisons in amateur entertainments it is impossible to ' refrain from making special mention of the items contributed by Miss Tilly. Endowed with a rich and sympathetic voice, Braga's " Sercnata" was given with rare effect, the lady playing her own accompaniment on the piano. The violin part was in capable hands. In a subsequent song "By the Fountain " Miss Tilly increased g the favorable impression she had made, and had to submit to another enthusiastic recall. Miss Kempt'norno, another young lady visitor, with a finely modulated contralto voice, sang " Crossing the Bar" in a highly effective manner, and Miss May Malfroy rendered the " Fliffht of Ages " $ most charmingly. Master Hubert James | demonstrated the flexibility and range of his clear soprano voice in " Joyous Life" and as a matter of course was encored. Later on be appeared in a duet with Mr Boult, " The Angels," which through no fault of the vocalists did not prove so attractive an item. Mr Richardson was L " billed " for two songs, " Only once | More," and "The Message," but the [< audience would not rest satisfied till lie : had contribe'ed four, and seemed half inclined to demand a fifth. Mr Fisher gave Pinsuti's " Queen of the' Earth." and the "Last Watch," with considerable'effect. Mr Gibbs, another stranger, contributed " The Postillion," which has air easy-going roll about it rendering it attractive. Mr Roth achieved fresh laurels in "Adieu," and Mr Samson's wellmodulated tenor was heard to the Greatest advantage in " I seek for Thee." The accompaniments which were played with the utmost discrimination throughout were in the hands of the Misses Brabant. Ginders, and Tilly, and Mr Boult. At the conclusion instead of the usual perfunctory manner of playing a bar or two of " God Save the Queen," as the audience wrestle into their overcoats and make for the door, a verse of the anthem was sung by tl i e audience, stan din <r, which sliowsthat we are a loyal lot in Rotorua when the' war clouds are gathering round.