BESSIE DOYLE TO-NIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9492, 23 April 1894, Page 5

BESSIE DOYLE TO-NIGHT.

That unusual interest centres in the tonight's demonstration performance at the City Hall, and that another record house will greet the brilliant young violiniste is abundantly manifest by the great demand for seats which set in at Messrs. Wildman and Lyell's as soon as the plan was thrown open on Friday. The most careful preparations have been made to ensure the comfort of the audience and to prevent overcrowding. Mr. McMahon announces that one thousand seats have been set apart at one shilling, and that a limited number of extra ones in dress circle and reserved stalls will be procurable during to-day at Messrs. Wildman and Lyell's, and to-night at the ticket offices on payment of a booking fee of one shilling. The doors will be opened at seven o'clock, and a double staff of ushers and door-keepers has been engaged. His Excellency the Governor, the Mayor and Mayoress of Auckland, the Mayor of Onehunga, the captain and officers of H.M.s. Tauranga, the members of the Auckland Caledonian Society, and numbers of the clergy and leading citizens will be present. The occasion promises to do honour to the gifted and universally admired young artiste, who acquired such instant hold upon ail classes of the public. A bountiful and remarkable programme is announced, and is aptly alluded to by the management as a " Banquet of Music." Miss Doylo will play the legende (Wieniawski), " Alice, Where Art Thou," the Raff cavabina Spanish dance (Sarasato), "The Blue Bells of Scotland," Gounod's celobratod serenade (vocal part by Miss Birch), "Home, Sweet Home," "Auld Lang Syne," and (with Mr. Mackenzie) Faure's grand sacred song, "The Palms." It is quite beyond question that such an immense contribution to one performance by one of the world's masters of the violin, is a rare thing indeed. Mr. Mackenzie will sing, "Hear the Wild Winds Blow," "Bonnie Prince Charlie," "The Cameron Men," "The Palms," and " The Bugler," and indeed the whole programme has been carefully arranged to prove pre-eminently popular and attractive.