MUSICAL NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6128, 15 March 1898, Page 4

MUSICAL NOTES.

— — *-. — [By Counter-Tenob in " Cantebbhrt Times."] The Christcliurcli Musical Union will produce Mr Alfred Hill's cantata Hinemoa shortly after Easter. Miss Alice Corrick will probably sing the soprano solos. A contemporary states that Mr Orlando Harley,'the tenor of the Albani Company, visited New Zealand with Signor Poli. This is incorrect, Mr Harley left Foli's company before it visited this colony. The Christchurch Moiett Society is now working hard to give, at an early date, the first of the series of concerts arranged to be produced this year. The music being practised is the Irish ballad "Phaudrig Crohoore," and the cantata Acis and Galatea. The first is one of the latest compositions by Dr Stanford, and was selected by Mr Wells when recently in London. These two works, with some selections by the j orchestra, will complete the programme of ' the concert, which the committee hopes to give about the middle of next month. The list of honorary members is not yet complete. . Mr Henry Bracy is employed as travelling representative for Messrs Williamson and Musgrove with Mdme. Albani. Mr Ernest Gye, husband of Madame Albani, pronounces his name "Jye." Ho was surprised to hear that 7s 6d was to be the highest price of admission in Australia. Mdme. Albani's portraits do not do her justice. She is a very much handsomer woman than they show, a very charming, gracious, and dignified woman, of whom everyone in her company speaks delightedly, and she has a beautiful complexion, which, of course, the camera cannot reproduce. Signor Armande Seppilli, the conductor with the Madame Albani Concert Party, is an Italian composer and conductor, who when Mascagni won the great Italian competition with Cavallcria Rusticana finished a very close second. Signor Seppilli has been associated with Coverit Garden Theatre for years. Miss Maud M'Cartby, the youthful Australian violiniste.who has created such a sensation in England, is considered by Madame Albani to be marvellously clever and destined to be another Norman-Neruda. The diva states that it was only the wish of the child's friends that Maud should be heard on the Continent, so as to consolidate "her professional reputation, that prevented the inclusion of the violiniste in the present company.