STUDENTS OF THE PIANO.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 12 December 1923, Page 10

STUDENTS OF THE PIANO.

A number of promising young students of the pianoforte were presented by Mr. Horace Hunt at an invitation pupils' recital in the Town Hall Concert Chamber last night. The large audience showed much interest in the programme .submitted. Probably quite a number of people attended with the special object of hearing again, before her departue for England, Miss Imelda Fama, 1 who had promised to repeat four of the items of her successful programme of last week. Unfortunately, owing to an eleventhhour indisposition. Miss Fama wj^s ■ unable to appear, and Mr. Hunt apologised for her absence. . One of the most musicianly students was Miss Edna Jenkins, who gave careful,renderings of the Adagio movement torn • Beethoven's sonata Pathetique, .and of Cyril Scott's " Vesperale " and Grieg's " Nocturne." Each half of the programme was opened with a pianofort duet, the Misses Iris Mason and Marguerite Webb playing Grieg's "Norwegian Dance," and 'the .Misses Margaret M'Nair and Marguerite Webb a composition by Mr. Hunt. Miss Doris Tanham gave a somewhat slow reading of Barratt's "Coronach," and appeared again later with Sindirig's 'Marche Grotesque." Much promise was shown by Mr. Henry Cook in his able treatment of Mendelssohn's "Rondo Capriccipso," " To a Water Lily " (MacDo well), and " Danse Negre" (Cyril Scott). Another creditable performance was that of Miss Constance Donald, who played Rachmaninoff's 0 sharp Minor Prelude, MacDowell's "Hungarian," and Choppin s " Nocturne," and "Fantasisielmpromptu." Miss Iris Mason played the- Coleridge-Taylor " Valse de le Reme, and Miss M. Webb was equally successful in two studies by Heller— Andantmo con Tenerezza and Allegro vivo. Variety was lent to the evening's entertainment by two groups of songs by Miss .Nellie Taylor and Miss Molly Fenton respectively; Miss Taylor was accompanied by Mies Iris Masan in a bracket by Liddle, " A Pearl for Every Tear and " The Way Home,"' and Mlf Fe^ gave Schubert's" Death .Not (Ma-llinson), accompanied by Miss Edna Jenkins. Both singers were encored.