SINGERS’ FINALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 9

SINGERS’ FINALE

KENTUCKY COMBINATION’S SUCCESS EXCELLENT HARMONY After a matinee this afternoon, the Kentucky Jubilee Singers will give the final performance of their season in Auckland this evening at His Majesty s Theatre. In every programme, in their stay of a week, the singers have impressed. In straightforward choral work, they have revealed excellent quality, and their part singing has been finely done. There is no doubt that Forbes Randolph’s company has prived itself to be a combination well worth hearing. From high tenor to the bass voices, the blending has been perfect. Negro spirituals, with haunting effects peculiar to nergo voices, plantation melodies with a true Southern -’darkle” atmosphere, and interpretations of tho fears and hopes in a war-time dug-out have all been impressively portrayed by the singers. Their “camp-meetin’ 5 effects have a genuine ring. Auckland has enjoyed the opportunity provided in the singers’ entertainment to learn negro music as it is actually provided for the American public. The efforts to obtain suit-ably-blended voices were carried out in New York’s Harlem, and as far as the Continent, and they resulted in the forming of a company which has earned a reputation for producing har - mony of the highest order. The singers’ power of expression is bound to make the remainder of their tour of New Zealand as successful as the opening in Auckland.