MISS JUDSON'S RECITAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 132, 5 June 1900, Page 2

MISS JUDSON'S RECITAL.

Miss Dora Judson's pianoforte recital at the Choral Hall last evening was well attended, and proved most successful in every way. Miss Judson was assisted by Mons. de. Wiilimoff, Miss Alice Batger, and Mr Horace Stebbing, and the interesting programme submitted met with due appreciation. Chief among the items was the "Kreutzer" sonata for violin and piano, two movements of which were brilliantly played by Mons. de Willimoff and Miss Judson. Prolonged applause followed the performance, and the artists bowed their acknowledgments. Miss Judson did not spare herself, appearing as she did in five items, in most of which two or more solos were bracketed. These, with accompaniments and encore numbers, made up a heavy evening's work, but the young performer proved equal to all the demands made upon her musical abilities. Brahms "Schummerlied" and Schumann's "Aufschwung" were bracketed together, and later on Miss Judson played "Prelude in B Minor" (Chor.ii.), "Papillou" .Gre.g), "Scherzo in E Minor" (Mendelssohn), and "Study in E" (Paganini-Liszt). In Schumann's "Concerto in A Minor" she was accompanied, on a second piano, by Miss Alice Batger, with whom she also appeared in a duet, "Hungarian Dances" (Brahms). A. an encore number Miss Judson added a "Barcarolle" by Tschn'kowsky. Mons. de YVill'moff was loudly encored' for his brilliant rendfriiiP' of Wir-niawski's "Pnlonaise in A," and in response gave Pierne's "Serenade," a charming melody, played with muted strings. Mr Horace Stebbing received an encore for his solo, "The King's Minstrel," responding with "Still as the Night," and also contributed "Longings" (Rubens'tein) with success.