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JOSEPH HISLOP

ARTISTIC PROGRAMME GREAT TENOR WELL RECEIVED Joseph Hislop, the famous Scottish tenor, and Air Isidor Goodman, together presented a pleasing and artistic programme at the Opera House last night. The feature of the programme was its catholicity and the predominance of fragmentary items of light character, ending with several nursery rhymes which, coming at the end of the programme, left the audience in an unsatisfied frame of mind. Tho pro gramme would possibly have found greater favour at an afternoon studio concert. As a tenor singer, Joseph Hislop Is ' pleasing, displaying culture and nicety of taste. He was under the handicap (last night of being discomfited by the cold draft, but donning his overcoat, he kept to his programme. It would be difficult, indeed, to judge | from last night’s programme, Yvherc I Air Hislop excels. He is a happy soul and can make a pleasing remark. Ills rendering of O'Brien’s "Faery Tree' - tvas delightful, but ho touched the hign note of artistry in "Windy Nights’ and more particularly in the intensely dramatic "Lord Randal.’’ Among the number included on the programme were "O Paradise,” from L'Africana (Meyerbeer); "Snowflakes” (Cimara); and "Wonderful’ (Sibella); "A Widow Bird Sate Mourning” (Bantock); "When Dawn Breaks Through" (Wood); and "Bon nie Wee Thing." Two Greig numbers sung in Norwegian were very well received, namely "Whilst 1 /Await,” and "The Swan.” "Aly Sweet Lovely Jean,” and the artistic, but sketchy nursery rhymes brought the concert to its unconvincing close. Air Isidor Goodman played "Organ Prelude,” "Fugue in A Minor" (Bach Liszt), Beethoven’s "Moonlight Sonata.” "The Lark,” arranged by Puccini, and as an encore, Etude in 1* Ala.jor, by Schubert. Air Goodman’s playing is charming, and of a high order and merited his I being bracketed with Air Hislop, who j rightly conceded Air Goodman a gener I ous share of the programme.

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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 110, 12 May 1931, Page 11

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JOSEPH HISLOP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 110, 12 May 1931, Page 11

JOSEPH HISLOP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 110, 12 May 1931, Page 11