IRENE AINSLEY CONCERT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 7 November 1908, Page 7

IRENE AINSLEY CONCERT

In the Opera House on Monday night local concert goers will be given their last opportunity of -hearing this remarkably gifted young singer,- about whom so much has 1 been heard within the last four years. Coming to us with tho laurels of many triumphant concerts in other towns and cities still fresh upon her,- it is small wonder that her opening concert should be awaited with considerable eagerness, and there is no doubt that one of the largest audiences yet seen within our concert hall will greet Madame' Melba's protegee when she appears on the platform on Monday ovening. , Everywhere Miss Ainsley has won the eulogies of press and public, and she has indeed justified the high hopes of her many friends in New Zealand. That Miss Ainsley is fulfilling by this tour a promise made four- years ago when leaving Auckland to pursue her musical studies abroad, our readers are doubtless aware, and that she relinquished many important engagements in England that she might do so, it not exaggerating the truth, numbered amongst those engagements being the cdntralto roles .in the Birmingham and Norwich Festivals. Miss Ainsley's triumphs ha^e been so numerous and so recent that they need not be enumerated here ; suffice to say that no artist has come to us of recent years with better credentials. A strong company will support Miss Ainsley, including Mr Hamilton Hodges, the favorite New Zealand baritone. i