CELEBRITY CONCERT
On Saturday nest at 8 p.m. a concert, arranged by the New Zealand Broadeasting Board, will be held in the Town Hall for the Mayor's Relief Fund. An excellent selection of artists has been made. Lionclle Cecil, the Australian operatic tenor, will sing " Vesti la Gitibba " (Leoncavallo), " English Rose (German), "La Donna E Mobile" (Verdi). John Robertson, the champion cornetist, will play " Post Horn Galop" (Koenig),"My Heaven of Love" (Goldmark), "Until" (Sanderson); and the St. Kilda Band will play his accompaniments. Miss Mary Pratt's numbers will be "Harbour Night Song" (Sanderson), •'Love's Old Sweet Song" (Molloy). Walter Kingsley, celebrated English baritone, will sing " Border Ballad" (Cowen), " I Travel the Road " (Thayer), and "The Legion of the Lost" (West). Paul Vinogradoff, the eminent Russian pianist, will play " Prelude in G Minor " (Rachmaninoff), "Nocturne in P Sharp " (Chopin), "Russian Fantasie " (arranged by Vinogradoff). Lionclle Cecil and AValter Kingsley will also bo heard in the duets "In this Solemn Hour" (Verdi) and "Quivering Hour" (Verdi). The St. Kilda Band (the champion of New Zealand), under Mr J. Dixon, will play the march " Fighting Strength" (Jurman), the selection "William Teli" (Rossini), the overture " Zampa" (I-Ierold), and the march "Wellington" (Zehle). The orchestral accompaniments to the singers will be played by the concert orchestra conducted by Mons. de Rose. The impression made at the last celebrity concert, when Senia Chostiakoff and Madame Elsa Stralia scored distinct triumphs and all .receipt records in New Zealand were broken, still remains with the Dunedin public, which can be relied upon to give the concert on Saturday the support it deserves. Further particulars are advertised.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22568, 11 May 1935, Page 14
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268CELEBRITY CONCERT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22568, 11 May 1935, Page 14
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