THELMA PETERSEN CONCERT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12745, 24 April 1912, Page 5

THELMA PETERSEN CONCERT.

>, \n to-day's issue , tlie full programme ;of the concert to bo given tp-mowow: jeyening by Miss Thelma PeterjSen, the j^oung. New fi Zealand, contralto, is pub-: <lished. From the selectioi;-,. it will be' ! seen tliat some very fine songs; are* to be rendered, and among Miss! Petersen's 1 jnumbers, Liddle's beautiful setting of j" Abide With Me" will bo (given ; also {"Ombra Mai Fie" (Handel), "Silver Ring" j(Charain^4e), :and :"My Gentle Child" (Del lliego). Miss Petersen is to be supported hy some of the best talent in this town,' as Mrs P. Barry, the Gisborne bieda,rtafel, Vjta.Bros.' orchestra, jand M'essrs Ivisslihg, Teat, and Cade are alfco , taking;!- part .in!. the concert. Speaking of one of .her earlier concerts at Masterton, the '.., Wairarapa . Daily Times said':. "Miss Petersen commenced by a fine rendering of "Kathleen Mavoiirjieen/' wherein the if rßshq^ss. and sweethes s df her young voice' were hedjrd to the greatest advantage, and even the compelled addition of a cotjplo of bal- : lads, in response to. a double encore, scarcely satisfied • ay , audience, who ihad had all too little of.. that sympathetic voice. Its quality and range are good, and -it.,%. appai<e>ftly ipi^jpyjed! wjtijfpnt effort; ij> fact as^^ar as ..thfeivciiae' itself is concerned, there can scarcely be two I opinions .iwj to' its 'providing- mlateridl out of which, in a : few .ye^rs, ta capable teaeher may easily pi'ovide for us anr) other colonial prima donna." •• ,