MUSIC NOTES

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1570, 27 May 1920, Page 32

MUSIC NOTES

(By

"G” String.)

By the last Australian mail came to hand a parcel of music from the well-known publishers, Messrs. Chappell and Co., of the Auditorium Buildings, Collins Street, Melbourne, and 321 Pitt Street, Sydney, and London. Amongst the parcel worthy of most notice are: —“Spring Will Return With You,” words by May Stanley, music by Geoffrey O’Hara. This is

an altogether dainty item, with a haunting chorus. “Will o’ the Wisp,” songs, words and music by Jesse Winne, is tuneful with a refrain containing sustained runs well suited to a soprano voice. “The Road That Brought You to Me” is from the pen of Bernard Hamblen, and is a haunting love melody, and is well worth singing. “My Land of Dreams,” words and music by Jesse Winne, is a dainty trifle from the land of Uncle Sam, with a refrain in which the melody is set to waltz time.

The late Coleridge Taylor’s daughter. now aged 16, has inherited many of her father’s musical gifts, and has lately attracted much notice by a number of charming songs and piano pieces. The famous tenor Jean de Reske lost a son, Lieutenant Jean de Reske, at Montdidier on June 20, 1918. Posthumous honours have recently been paid the son by the French Government, and the ribbon of the Legion of Llonour has been presented to his brother Edouard by the officers of rhe Order.

There are twenty-three musical numbers, in addition to dances and specialties, in “The Bing Boys on Boardway,” to be staged at Her Majesty’s, Melbourne, by J. C. Williamson, Ltd. ‘ The J. C. Williamson management points out that “The Bing Boys on Broadway” is not a revue. It is described as being “the

adventures of Lucifer Bing and his cousin, Potifer, in America, as told by George Grossmith and Fred Thompson.” The production will be staged by George A. Highland. The ballets and dances have been arranged and invented by Minnie Hooper.