Show 1 MOUNTAIN ASH CHOIR CH I l 7 tf rs e y sE t tx x 4 j it r N A a S a r T. T CLY I Director Director- of or the Mountain Ash Ala C Choir GOOD many persons knowing A that the success of oC tho Mountain Mountain Moun Moun- I tain Ash choir of or Wales ales Great Britain Britain Brit Brit- ain aln headliner at the Orpheum this week weel has been In ht a very cry great ca mea mca measure I ure due to the genius of oC its leader Glyndwr Richards wo we have hac been at some pains to learn his artistic ante Tho The following will aDs answer aDser er ermany questions many Swansea national eis eisteddfod eis- eis It It was at tho the of 1891 1831 a as the singing sinsin competitions competitions compe compo of or the Welsh are called that He was isas wasat Mr Richards came into fame at that timo time the choir leader o of a body less well of oC men perhaps J considerably known than the Mountain 1 Ash choir 1 ho now leads lends with such astonishing i results The namo name of oC it was the Male Voice Part Party It I I will wm be understood that in such competitions com petitions each choir sings the same 1 pieces a aver very great l help to the Judges wh when n many are aro in a contest A particular particular par par- ua was all nil singing piece that were were- Joseph Parrys Parry's Pilgrims Several exceptional choirs had sung it with effect when the turn I brilliancy and came round for tor the trie p I Mr Richards' Richards choir bats bars Dar opening No sooner had the been given g cn than both tho judges put pui and notebooks One uno away their pencils forgot for ot his Judicial di dignity s so o far tar as to w chair and throw UP turn round in his j at the i amazement in utter his hands ui Of splendor r of the performance course the audience nce which always II keeps n. n curious eye eyo e o on the thie adjudicators jud judgment judg- judg tor tors to seo see if it can c n divine their to bo be bethe bothe W was S ment immediately saw who the winner The other adjudicator Professor Shakespeare who had ha now hen J I openly the ever not b betrayed tra e slow In 1 1 tion he secretly felt Celt elt was wiry not to agreeing eln with th Signor Signer g r as i whore the prize sh should ld be be then have gone since Twenty ears years experience an and I twenty years of ot added tho the Mountain Ash choir Dire upon have ha of efforts forts Glyndwr Richards' Richards hajj or choir choll Is arla arllY arl been lavished A lead leaa lender lend lend- and a mutual affair and chorus each other 1 I cr er r may not do without |