RETURNED SOLDIERS' CHOIR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 5

RETURNED SOLDIERS' CHOIR

When noble deeds hold the stage of history and lofty ideas have captured a nation’s imagination, no department of life responds to their influence more than that of music and literature, this great expression of feeling of creative imagination in all passionate and mirthful aspects and circumstances of life. The Returned Soldiers’ Choir, born in national stress and flourishing in peace, will celebrate its fiftieth jubilee concert on November 27. There can be only one jubilee for the time will surely come when the unknown will take toll, and this event is just a memorable page in Otago history. Messages from Fieldmarshal Sir W. R. Bird wood, Majorgeneral Sir Andrew Russell, the Royal Male Choir, the president of the Returned Soldiers’ Association, and Colonel Muir will be included in the souvenir programme. Special tributes to the army and navy will in poems of song bo paid to the" cx-soldiers. Miss Anita Winkel will deliver the jubilee oration to the “Men and Women of Greater Britain.” The first pianist, conductor and soloist, Messrs Charles Martin, Paget Gale and Mrs Wilfrid Andrews, will appear. Lady soloists from Wellington, Canterbury, Southland and Otago who have appeared at past concerts will combine to form a ladies’ choir, accompanied by string players who have also played for the choir. Eight brilliant pianists from the Barth School of Music will, on four grand pianos, play Liszt’s Rhapsody No. 2. Lieutenant Napier’s trumpeters will infuse a miiltary note. Miss' Sybil Baker will be the accompanist, and Mr John T. Leech will direct.