MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1584, 2 September 1920, Page 30

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

"G” String.)

Messrs. C. J. de Garis and Reg. Stoneham, librettist and composer respectively of the Australian musical comedy ‘F.F.F.,” which is shortly to be staged in Melbourne, have received some further encouragement from a firm of music publishers. After hearing the melodies incidental to the comedy the firm undertook to publish 150,000 of the 16 songs. The revival of Puccini’s “La Tosca” in London recently introduced a new prima donna, Miss Lina Polirandaccia, who, it is said, has commanding stage presence, and a soprano voice of exceptional quality. “Hearts of Oak” is now the official marching song of British sailors. The Royal Marines have always used “A Life on the Ocean Wave.” Seventy years’ service as a chorister is claimed as a record by a member of the choir of the Alderley Parish Church, Cheshire.