MUSICAL EVENING BY CONVENT PUPILS

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 20, 18 October 1944, Page 3

MUSICAL EVENING BY CONVENT PUPILS

It is always Interesting to see the young idea sprouting in the garden of music. Several stages of this growth may always be observed at the perennial recitals given by the pupils of St. Mary’s Convent (Hill Street). The musical evening given iu St. Frauds Hall recently attracted, a large audience, and the children’s deportment and playing showed the wisdom of giving the young ones the opportunity of exhibiting their powers, however feeble, before their elders. It breeds confidence, and inspires them, one and all, to do their best in a censorious world.

due feature about the first part of the programme, for the rather young, was the use of pictorial suites for the pianoforte, in which the picture was contributed to l in duets or quartets. There was the "Red Riding Hood” suite, which employed Kay Chapman, Georgette Chapman, Pamela Casey. Gwen Wynne, Merome Lavin, Lurline Nicholson, and Jane aud Lorna Spencer-Digby; Farjeou's “Country Sounds,” played by Robert McClure, Ansley .McClure, Ann Dixon aud Janet Roache; "The Humming Street.” suite by Markham Lee (who visited YVellington once on a time), very brightly played by Colleen Cash,. Geraldine Loftus, Y'alerie Travis, Florence King, Pamela Hayward, aud Margaret Niiumo.: “Scenes from Child-, hood” (Schumann), nicely played by Pam-’ ela Hayman, Judith Cudby. Doreen Vaughan, Elizameth Mary Stent; aud "Suite from Scotland,” which engaged the attentions of Mary Greal.v, Marylyn Reed, Joy Hughes, Josephine Gunter, Cora Johnston, and Nita Penman. There were also violin numbers and a song by Elizabeth McDonald.

In the second part the talent was much more advanced. There were pianoforte numbers by Kathleen Palmer, Jocelyn .Ylurdoeb, Margaret Parsonage, Shirley Matthias, Shirley Power, Anu .McLean, Aileen Conroy, Joy Anderson, Rosemary Jackson, .Marguerite O’Ncale, Gladys Rainbow (an accomplished -pianist), Mary MeNeeee, and Colleen Dreyer. There was- a song by Shirley Svcnson, a violin solo by Anne Flood, anil recitations by Joy Stewart and Doreen O’Flaherty. Tlie composers were select and .tlie standard of performance was excellent throughout this part of the programme. The accompanists were Misses J. Milligan and A. Conroy.