HAWAIIAN HARMONIES.
An entertainment of an attractive and unusual kind is to be given iu'flbe Parish Hall on Wednesday, August 29, by a Hawaiian Orchestra of 30 instrumentalists. These players have been specially trained by Mr. Edward Larsen, the well-known musician, and is the largest and only orchestra of its kind in New Zealand. Composed of Hawaiian guitars, mandolins and ukeieles, m a setting of pungas and other bush plants, it is distinctly reminiscent of the pahn-fringed isles of the 1 aeifie. The Hawaiian guitar was evolved by a native of Hawaii about ■>o years ago. It was very appropriately named by the natives, the Hawaiian steel guitar, for nothing so expresses the spirit of the South Sea Islands as the sweet, haunting harmonies of these instruments. The Orchestra will be heard in guitar and ukelele duets, trios etc. A special feature of the programme, will be the singing of several Hawaiian melodies, with orchestral adoompaniment. In addition there will also be selections by a Venetian Band of 22 players, which will be herfd in airs characteristic of old VeniceY The music-loving public of Masterton' aro assured of a thoroughly enjoyable evening, something entirely out of the ordinary.
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Wairarapa Age, 22 August 1934, Page 4
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198HAWAIIAN HARMONIES. Wairarapa Age, 22 August 1934, Page 4
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