DEATH STOPS A SINGER
COLLAPSE DURING SOLO. MOTHER’S FRANTIC DASH. Total eclipse. No sun, no moon; All dark, all dark, amidst the blaze of noon. After singing these opening words of tho tenor solo “Total Eclipse,” from Handel’s oratorio “Samson,” Mr. Alec Campbell, of Southampton, collapsed at tho Southampton Music Festival on March 11. He died later in hospital. Mr. Campbell’s mother was in the audience and she saw him loan over the piano and fall to tho platform. She was the first to reach his side. Sir Hugh Roberton,’conductor of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, who was judging the competition, had just written a note on his marking sheet: “Had a certain dignity,” when Mr. Campbell collapsed. An official of the festival said that everyone in the audience thought Mr. Campbell had fainted. After ho had been carried out the competition proceeded. Mr. Campbell, who was 26, was injured in a motoring accident a fortnight previously.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 12
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