UNDER THE PALMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 16 May 1901, Page 2

UNDER THE PALMS.

The Cintita, by G. F. Riot, bearii g the above title, to b) rendered by the VVesleyan choir in the Whi'el .y Hall ti-nighf. ij intended to illustrate the Jewish Feast of Ttbernacles on harv.st festival. At this feist, the people dwell fo' one weik in !i t'e tents or booths mad a of evergre-h and rmimerited with fruits and fLwers. The occision here pie-'eutvd is'he Feast thnt took*pkce after (he r-:turn from tie captivity in Bibyloo. The fi'kt part of the work dtab with the of the people from boadage, the second depicts thtir rejoicing, whil.i the whole j concludes wi'.h an p.pnlieation ." My Soul the S.iviiur's Message Hear," r.n.taining solos for each part, followed • y a grand finale for schoo', choir and quartette " We are Marching Hem; to Zion." A glance at the forty-nigi t numbeis in the work shows them to be tufficiently diversified to pl .asi evrry- . oLe. There arj choruses for a choir of children, as well aa fo>.- the adult choir, and for both c-imbined ; snlos fir nil parts, duois, a tiio, several quartcti«s, and a quint-tt'. T ,e fol- s hav 5 ! o-n allotte l lo Miss Collis, soprano ; Mr.', Piket. l -, corjtml'o ; Mr. A. Vei'e,'»nor; and Mr. Lee, ba-a V«r ety will al.-o be j>iven to the programme by th« items c >r piano and vio'in r- spective'v, hy Mhs Grouch-r, of Ntihon, tho young trolrl mndal!is L , whoso servi :. r the commiitbe have been fortunate enough to s cure.