WAR & MUSIC

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2479, 4 June 1915, Page 8

WAR & MUSIC

•———« MUSICAL UNION IN A QUANDARY. At the annual meeting of tho Wellington Musical Union it -.vas announced that tho committeo had at its last meeting decided to give the first concert of tho season at tho earliest favourable opportunity, and in view of that contingency rehearsals would be hold regularly. In referring to that point last evening tho chairman (Mr. Geo. Shirtclilfe) -stated that with so many entertainments being given in aid of tha troops that were going away and the wounded, the committee felt that it would bo imprudent to give tho first ccncert at Lho end of Juno or tho beginning of July as originally contemplated. With tho experience members had already had of tho Carnival they would agree that people would liav'o very little pocket-money loft by the end of tho month, and that a postponement to a more suitahlo time was necessary. It was difficult to lix upon a date, as none of them knew what was rniilig to happen, and things were generally so unsettled. It was no good thinking about a performance without some reasonable prospect of making ends meet. The honorary secretary's (Mr. ' A. M. Lewis) proposal was to hold a throe nights' musical festival at the end of the year, but the committeo had been against that, and had decided to , leavo it to tho incoming committee to j decido what should be done. Ho knew I > that tho Musical Union in the past had ■ been successful in tlieso festivals, but t conditions had changed ' Mr Lewis said that his idea in prof posing tho festival was in order to givo c tho three concerts during the year, and so havo a definite programme to ofler I subscribers. By holding a three days' festival they would he giving them their mouoy's worth. o Filially Mr. V. IV Willis moved that 0 tho matter of arranging ;i programme e of performances bo lelt to tile llMOlll- '■ ing committee, and this was adopted. '• ft was announced during the evening " that tho works proposed to be rehearsed ! f wero as follows First concert, two II parts of Coleridge Taylor's "Hiawatha f and Stanford's "Last Post"; second 1 concert, Sir Chas. V. Stanford s ' lho iq Revenge" and (ianl's ".loan of i C- third concert, Mendelssohn's 'St. Paul." _____