A NEW ZEALAND SINGER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 35, 18 March 1914, Page 4

A NEW ZEALAND SINGER.

The musical critic of ''The Queen," writing of Miss Adelaide Yan Staveren, states that she has many points in her favour, among which & fine voice and unlimited temperament may be accounted the most important. But her singing at Aeolian Hall on January 27 made it evident that neither of tliese most valuable qualities has as yet been brought under sufficient control to allow her to make the most of her undeniable resources. Her tone is so powerful that there was no necessity to force it, as she too often did, though this is, after all, a fault which a little care should soon reetify. In other respects her work had a great deal of promise-, and she was rarely at a loss to find the appropriate treatment for the varied selection of songs of which her interesting programme was made up. The lorig and trying scena for the witch from Parry's "King Saul" leff no doubt as to the singer's capacity for dramatic effect, but, for the reasons given above, she was heard to better advantage in the more lyrical numbers, of which the '' Flower Song'' from Gounod's "Faust" might be specially mentioned.