DERRY’S MILITARY BAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22398, 20 October 1934, Page 6

DERRY’S MILITARY BAND

Derry’s Military Baud and concert party will visit this city to-morrow. The official programme provides for concerts at the Botanic Gardens, at 8 p.m., and the Empire Theatre, at 8 p.m. If the weather is wet, however, the afternoon concert will be given in the Empire Theatre at 3 p.m. The programme should be an excellent one and, with experience as manager and conductor behind him, Mr H. Gladstone Hill, musical director, is evidently leaving nothing to chance. In the afternoon the band will play “The Gondoliers” and “The Chocolate Soldier,” also Dvorak's “ Humoreske,” the American sketch “ By the Swauce River,” the idyll “ The Glowworm,” the waltz “ Smiles Then Kisses, ’ the Scottish patrol “Wee MacGregor,” and three • of Alford’s marches, “ The Thin Red Lino,” “ Dunedin.” and “ The Mad Major.” In addition Mr Albert E. Hutton will play “Through the Air” as a piccolo solo. At the evening concert the band will play the marche militaire “ Florentincr,” overture “ Morning, Noon and Night,” grand selection “ Chu Chin Chow,” fantasia, “ Smithy in the Wood,” “The Cavalry Charge,” and an interesting and novel piece of music, “Home Sweet Home the World Over.” The composer shows how the well-known air would be played in the natural manner characteristic of 11 nations of the world The hymn “ It Is Well With My Soul ” has been specially arranged to give scope to the different instruments of the band. Alford's magnificent poetic march, “The Vanished Army,” concludes the band’s work for the evening. Assisting artists are Master Warwick Humphreys, Master Trevor Hutton, Mr and Mrs Leslie Scrimshaw, Mr Albert E. Hutton, Mr Frank Geoghcgan, Mr R. C. Muschamp, and Mr William Moody. Miss Cecily j Hutton and Mr Norman A. Carson are ' the accompanists. Silver collections i will be taken at both concerts.