MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1542, 13 November 1919, Page 32

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

Carl Formes, the dramatic baritone of the J. C. Williamson Grand Opera Company, which shortly visits New Zealand, will bear a scar for the rest of his life, as the result of his first appearance as Valentine in Sydney. In the duel scene in “Faust,” the foil

of Walter Wheatley, who was playing Faust, entered the flesh just at the edge of the baritone’s right eye. A fraction of an inch and Formes would certainly have lost his sight. As it was he was out of the bill for three or four nights. Mrs. Glover-Eaton, L.R.A.M., who spent five years in New Zealand, from 1903 to 1908, for the benefit of her son’s health, has been in England since then, and is now hoping for an early return to the Dominion. Mrs. Glover<Eaton was a very successful teacher in Wellington, and was also a teacher of singing at the Girls’ Wellington College and soloist at St. John’s Church, Wellington.

Ten performances of grand opera each week were recently given by the Carl Rosa Company at the London Lyceum.

There is no cheerfulness in the world to equal that of an amateur singer responding to an encore.