MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1429, 13 September 1917, Page 32

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

Miss Adelaide van Staveren, the Wellington vocal.st, has just concluded an engagement at the London Opera House, singing at both afternoon and evening performances. Miss van Staveren is a daughter of the ■Rev. van Staveren, the Jewish Rabbi of Wellington.

’ In order to give the artists, management and staff a well-earned rest, the season of grand opera under the direction of Sir Thomas Beecham, at Drury Lane Theatre, London, was suspended during the month of August. The season was to re commence on Saturday, September 1. During one of the recent air ra.ds on England the teachers at one of the London schools, on hearing the gunfire and bombs, gave the children a singing lesson, and while bombs fell within a few yards of the school the youngsters sang Elgar’s “Land of Hope Glory.” < Count Filipini is organising the New Italian Grand Opera Company for Messrs. Ben. and John Fuller, jun., which is to open an Australasian tour at Sydney next Easter. Signor Capelli will be the principal tenor.