THE WORLD OF MUSIC.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19451, 15 December 1934, Page 17 (Supplement)

THE WORLD OF MUSIC.

Why Doesn’t He Smile? The concert given hy the Grenadier Guard® Band in Hamilton on Wednesday night will, long be a delightful memory to the’ huge audience that crowded every corner of the Theatre Royal and even encroached on the stage. The bandsmen told me they were delighted with the Hamilton audience, which was one of the most appreciative to which they had played. Is it against military tradition for a conductor to smile? In acknowledging the enthusiastic applause of the audience Major Miller was as unsmiling as Heifetz the violinist.

Grand Opera In Sydney. The cast of “Aida," which will open Sir Benjamin Puller’s Grand Opera season at the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, next Friday, is as follows ;> — Aida Florence Austral Amneris Muriel Brunslcill Rhadames Walter Widdop Amonasro .......... Appleton Moore Rhamphis Norman Allin The King of Egypt .. Frederic Collier High Priestess Freda Shacko A Messenger Octave Dua

The first nights of other operas are as follows: December 22, “Tannhauser”; December 24, “Die Fledermaus”; January 2, “Madame Butterfly"; January. 3, “The Valkyrie”; January 8, “Rigoletto”; January 15, “Tristan and Isolde”; January 17, “II Trovatore”; January 23, "Faust.”

Myra Booth’s Pupils’ Recital. An entertaining programme will be presented by the pupils of the Myra Booth Studio to-night, at the Winter Show Hall. The ladles’ choir work will be a feature and of especial interest will be the number given by the boys’ choir. “■Five' minute.s with Gilbert and Sullivan” should be a very enjoyable item.

Well-Known Singer Married. Horace Stevens, .the Australian baritone singer who toured New Zealand last year with Leff. Poushnoff, planst, was married in Melbourne last week to Mrs Ella Hallam.

For eight years Mrs Hallam designed her own houses, bought her timber supplies, and personally supervised the erection of cottages and flats. The depression, however, caused her to turn tier business ability in oilier directions, and lately she has undertaken the supervision of pastoral properties in Victoria and New South Wales on behalf of absentee owners. As Mrs Horace Stevens, she proposes to continue tier-supervision of the pastoral properties, but the building of .houses will’not enter again into her life—until times are very much better. Bellringers for New Zealand. In preparation for the visit of a team of English bellringers, the tenor belt at (lie Christchurch Cathedral, which lias been .slightly out of order, was tested the other day.

The ■bellringers- will be in Christchurch eight days, during which time bellringers from other parts of the Dominion will ue present.