Concert At Mount Maunganui

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 15118, 29 October 1949, Page 2

Concert At Mount Maunganui

Tauranga Methodist Junior Choir High Standard Oi; Entertainment, (Staff Correspondent) Members of the Tauranga Methodist Junior Choir visited Mount Maunganui and presented an appreciative audience with a variety programme. The performance, both individually and as a choir, together with the artistic frocking in several playettes, reflected creditably on the efforts of Miss G. Spencer who was responsible for the training of the party. At the conclusion of the concert, Mr W. G. Aked thanked the Rev. A. A. Bensley for making the visit, possible, lie complimented Miss Spencer and the children on the high standard of entertainment. Proceeds from the entertainment will be devoted to the Mount Maunganui Methodist Church building fund. . . . , , The programme included songs ot Great Britain and Ireland by the choir; Noel Cooper, recitation; Hazel Lukov (pianoforte solo): playetlc, “Mushroom and Toadstool”: Dorothy Beswick and Michael Bettany (pianoforte duet); Negro spirituals by the choir; John Pinfold (violin solo): Shona Couch (recitation); song m costume by the senior girls; Marlene Chandler (piano accovdian solo); duet, Alan and Margaret Reekie: junior philharmonic orchestra (nursery rhymes); song and dance “The Flowers’ Awakening.” by the junior girls; John Lukey (violin solo); popular numbers by the choir; Rosemary Bettany (recitation); “The Heavens are Te'ling” and the “Hallelujah Chorus” by the choir. ___