"MOTHER MACHREE"

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 16

"MOTHER MACHREE"

CONCERTS NEXT WEEK

Music-lovers are looking forward to the four concerts to be given by the great Irish tenor, Alfred O’Shea, in the Town Hall on Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday of next week, and also Monday, July 2, under tthe direction of Henrj r Hayward. To give some idea of the diversity of Mr. O’Shea and the excellence of his singing, we quote an excerpt from a recent “Sydney Morning Herald” notice: “The cabled reports of Mr. Alfred O’Shea’s remarkable success in London were partly responsible for the overflowing audience which greeted him at the Sydney Town Hall last night. Mr. O’Shea has a wonderfully sweet tenor voice, and has been taught how to use it to the best advantage. He does not strive to shake the walls, but he can when the occasion requires rise to heights of passionate climaxes. He held his audience fascinated, particularly in the lovely Handelian air, ‘Waft Her, Angels, to the Sky.’ It is unusual for an audience to interrupt a sequence of songs, but that is what Mr. O’Shea’s audience demanded last night when he sang an exquisite French song, ‘I Memoir.’ In his encore pieces Mr. O’Shea gave ‘II Mis Tesoro’ from ‘Don Giovanni,’ which was a sheer delight, and he also sang ‘Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded,’ ‘Oft in the Stilly Night’ and several other old Irish melodies with a sincerity and sweetness and sympathetic feeling that htive never been approached in Sydney.” The box plans are now open at Lewis Eady, Ltd.