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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 10

END OF MUSIC WEEK

TO-NIGHT'S BIG CONCERT

PINE SCHOOL EFFORT

Music week's climax will be reached to-night, when in the Town Hall the Festival Choir and Orchestra will combine forces to givo a closing concert, the programme of which shows it to be well worthy of the great week of music that has been stirring Wellington. This will be the only attraction to-day, most people' 3 thoughts for the remainder of tho day being occupied in another direction.

Yesterday was a full day musically. The last of the series of organ recitals, coupled with community singing, was given during the lunch hour, and in the afternoon chamber music of the highest and best was provided by the Wellington Chamber Music Players in the Y.W.C.A. Hall. In the evening the concert given by the schools in the Town Hall was a triumph for the younger generation, and for Mr. Douglas Tayler," the Director of Music in Schools. CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT. The afternoon concert in tho Y.W.C.A. Hall was provided by the Wellington Chamber Music Players, and the attendance was good. This artistic combination consists of Mr. Leon do Mauny (first violin), Mr. Desmond Lavin (second violin), Mr. Frank Crowther (viola), Mr. Claude Tanner ('cello), Madame de Mauny (piano), and Signor A. P. Truda (flute). Their first number was Hugh Wyand's "Pianoforte Quartet in C." This modern composer is vigorous and melodious, his work being rich in tuneful thematic material, and the players' presentation was most enthusiastically received. Another very fine bit of playing was Mozart's "Quartet No. 28 in D Major," for flute, violin, viola, and 'cello. The first movement of Beethoven's "String Quartet in F Major" was these talented players' final contribution. The vocalist of the afternoon was Mrs. Clinton Hunt, who, with piano and violin obbligato, sang with exceeding charm "Em Ton" (Peter Cornelius) and "Le Boneur est Chose Legere." Later on she contributed a bracket of three seventeenth century songs, which were accompanied by tho string quarter. These were delightful, the numbers being "Man First Created Was" (Thomas Greaves, 1604), "If Floods of Tears" (Thomas Bateson, 1619), and "Cuckoo" (Richard Nicholson, early 17th century). Those present fully enjoyed and showed marked appreciation of one of the most polished performances of the week.