HUDDERSFIELD BELLRINGERS BAND.

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 75, 9 January 1912, Page 3

HUDDERSFIELD BELLRINGERS BAND.

The above band, which has opened its Australasian tour with great success show at Tc Awamutu on Thursday next. From reports to hand the performance is an exceptional treat to music-lovers, and creates great enthusiasm. Never in the history of Australasia has such a complete band oi bell-ringers visited its shores, and it is impossible to convey an idea of the excellent pitch these Huddersfield workingmen have brought their performance to until one hears them. Speaking of their performance a leading English daily says: “The band was beautifully balanced, and all the features of the music were brought out with neatness and precision. It was wonderful how Mr Townend, the conductor, ' was able to secure such delightful tone-colour and rhythm and well marked response to his expressive beating. Not only does the band display remarkable mechanical and technical accuracy, but really surprising skill and taste in so phrasing, shading, and accenting the various numbers as to suggest vividly to those who were acquainted/with them the humour of the situations, and the value «... of the parts of the situation, the value of the parts in just proportion, and their charm of expression where genuine sentiment prevails. The whole performance was highly finished and effected, etc.” Assisting the band are several English artists, including Ella Airlie, the charming young London pianoloquist, mimic and xylophone expert, and Mr George Campbell, the quaint humourist and instrumentalist. It might be mentioned that Miss Airlie is

recognised as one of the cleverest infantile mimics that has ' been heard in London, and in adding to being a clever artist is a composer of no little note. Popular prices are to be charged and the box plan is now opened at Le Sueur’s.