VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL RECITAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 274, 13 August 1920, Page 4

VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL RECITAL

Church recitals of any musical pretensions are all too rare in Wellington. A wealth 'of music'has been • written suitable to such performances, but it is mostly stored away in dusty cupboards or hidden on high shelves awaiting some • renaissance that will bring it to light, once more, so that those who were pre? sent at the recital given in the Tarauaki Street Wesley Church last evening by Messrs. H. Teniplo White (organist), Frank Johnstone ('cellist), and Keg. U, Blow (baritone) were all the more grateful for the pleasurable performance 1 given. Mr. "White, who was quite at home on the console of the mellow-toned organ, played with reserve and resource such music as Mailby's "March Solonelle." and a 6ofM.v flowing "Cuutilcne" bv the same composer; a sombre-hued "Romance" bv Litterbart, a picturesque "Rhapsodic Scriense" by Vodorinski, a 'Bach "Surabande" and "Prelude," and Mendelssohn's flamboyant "Cornelius March." Mr. Frank Johnstone, who is leaving Wellington shortly for Melbourne, will bo missed as Wellington's premiere 'cello soloist. He induced a nice full tone in an Andante movement from a Klengel "Concerto" (Op; 10), and displayed his facility in '.echnic in an "Air and Gavotte" by Handel. He also played a "Cantilena" from a Goltermann "Concerto" (Op. 14), and a. pretty "Can- ' zonetto" by d'Ambrosio. The vocal soloist was Mr. Reginald Blow, whose wellfavoured voice would have been heard to better advantage had the church been more fully peopled. Mr. Blow sang with good dramatic feeling "It Is Enough," "Elijah." Mr. Blow was also heard . to advantage in Sullivan's "Thou'rt Passing Hence" and "0 Star of Fjve," from "Tannhauser." Tho accompaniments, wore judiciously, played on the organ by Mr. White.