MADAME AMY SHERWIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6125, 11 March 1898, Page 2

MADAME AMY SHERWIN.

♦ FOURTH CONCERT. , Another large audience greeted Madame Amy Sherwin at the Choral Hall last . night and testified by its demonstrativeness its appreciation of the programme provided. Madame Sherwin's finest effort, perhaps the most conspicuously successful of the season, was achieved in " Wie nahte mir del Schluinmer," from Weber's Der Freischiitz. The famous recitative and air was sung with intense dramatic fire which aroused the audience to such enthusiasm that r an encore became imperative. The ;j singer at first ssemed to consider _ that her listeners ought to be satisfied with such a long and exacting number, but in the end she courteously acceded to their . wishes by singing a setting by Arthur Fagge of the old English words " Begone Dull Oare." For Gounod's " Ave Maria," on Bach's Prelude, she was re-called, and responded with *' Oh, ma Babbie," and she 1 substituted for a characteristic rendering of "Lo, Here the Gentle Lark," "No; Sir." , With Mr Deane, Madame Sherwin sang the duet "The Golden Goose," a humorous composition so humourously sung that it was encored. , Miss Kitty Grindlay's contributions were " The Worker," by Gounod, " Going to Market," by Diehl, and r - "My Boy Tammie." For the first and > second she earned recalls, and in reply to the first she sang "Jem." by Cotsford Dick, while instead of the second she gave the early Scotch ballad " I'm Ower Young to Marry Yet." Mr Arthur Deane pro- » vided a vigorous rendering of Frances Allitsen's fine composition "A Sone of Thanksgiving," and as an encore Lassen's • " When Thy Blue Eyes." He was hardly so successful in Florence A yl ward's "Beloved, it is Morn," and his conception of "Father O'Flynn" suffered in comparison with those of other distinguished vocalists by whom the song has been sung in Christchurch. Miss Grindlay and Mr Deane sang the duet "Oh That We Two Were Maying," delightfully, and they were fairly successful in "Ye Banks and Braes." Mr Alberto Zelman was recalled for his playing of " Reverie Appassionata," a violin solo that , has little to commend it, and he also played "Guitarre," an arrangement by Sarasate of a composition by Moszkowski. Mr Herbert Stoneham played as a flute solo, " Schierling " by Terschak, while Mr Szczepanowski's piano selections were a berceuse by Greig and a study by Chopin, which were redemanded. There will be another concert to-night.