MUSICAL CLUB.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10386, 4 May 1925, Page 5

MUSICAL CLUB.

THE OPENING ENTERTAINMENT. A very successful musicale was held :in the St. Stephen's Hall _by the newly-formed Ashhurton Musical -Club on Saturday evening. There was .a large attendance, and an enjoyable evening was spent. The promoters were Miss B. Claridge and Mass C*. Galbraith. The programme was as follows:-- Pianoforte quartette (over-

ture to "Ruy Bias"), first piano Misses Bearice Claridge and Ivy Digby, second piano, MisseS Margaret Jennings and Winifred Hunter; violin' duet ("Moment Musicale"), Misses E. Claridge, D. Jones, and D. Staph*; vocal trio (" 'Die Oars are Plashing ), Mrs A. T. Smith, Mrs H. Naylor and Mite Elsie Fletcher; pianoforte duet ("Regetta Venezia"), first piano. Misses Agnes Brunton and Enid Thompson, second piano Misses Doris and Mabel Staples; song (Prelude; from " CVcle of Life' ), Mrs A. T. i Smith; pianoforte duo ("Andante, with Variations"), first piano Miss Gladys Galbraith, second piano Mrs A. V Williams; instrumental trio (" Allegro" and "Rondo"),, violins Misses E. Claridge T>. Jones, and D , Staples, 'cello Miss H. Lill; song ("The .Sleepy Song"), Mrs H. Naylor^ manoI forte quartette (overture to William ! Tell") first piano Misses Elsie Fletcher I and Gladys Galbraith, second piano Misses Ivy Digby and Margaret Jennings; vocal trio ("The Sweet Little Girl and the Quaint Squeegee ), Mrs H Navlor, Mrs A. T. Smith, and Miss Elsie Fletcher; march ("War March of the Priests," from "Athahe ), organ Miss L. Watt, first piano Misses |B ClarMe* and R. Jeffs, second piano | Misses Lilian Lewis and Ivy Barber. | third piano Misses M. Staples' and I Haze] Smith, violins Misses E. Clar- | idge and D. Jones, Mrs F. Cheat, I Misses D. Staples and H. Wills, 'cello I Miss H. Lill. I The feature of the programme was the pianoforte quartettes, which greatly pleased the audience. The aim of the club is to bring out, by ensemble work, talent among the many students of the piano in Ashburton. i