JUVENILE CHOIRS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 134, 3 December 1935, Page 5

JUVENILE CHOIRS

SUCCESSFUL CONCERT

.Surely;,.there can be no better way '01 infusing a true appreciation of music into the character of the young people than by encouraging in them an intelligent and properly-trained partici■•Er^g,l"""lß*o- For.that reason alone !& c,'; Welllngton Girls' Choir and the Wellington Boys' Choir are worthy of every, encouragement.,, Thetsmall but appreciative audience that heard the annual concert of the choirs in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hal] last night was additionally rewarded by. the sheer enjoyment of the programme.

Seventeen girls and twenty-one boys comprised the choirs, and there was also a senior girls' octet. To the normal charm of the juvenile voices was added the musicianly polish imparted by the conductor, Mr. H. Temple White, and the result was a real treat. All these groups of singers responded to the control of the conductor with the faithfulness of professionals, and many a; singer, in the audience envied the individual and collective purity of tone. . - The programme was as follows:— By the Junior Girls'- Choir: "Dawn" (Harris); "Tender Wood Dove" (Gounod); "A Shepherd Lullaby" (Cyril Jenkins); "Now on Land and Sea" (Handel); "I Would That My Boundless Love" (Mendelssohn); "Shepherd's Dance" (Ed. German). By the Senior Girls' Octet: "Madrigal" (Miller); "Cradle Song" (Edmunds) "Snowflakes" (Cyril Jenkins); "Lullaby" (Elgar); "Go, Lovely Rose" (Markham Lee); "O'er the Distant Hills" (Markham Lee).

By the Boys' Choir: "As When the Dove" (Handel); "Spring Chorale" (17th Century German); "The Bagpipe Song" (Bach); "When Daisies Pied" (Arne); "Hark, Hark, the Lark" (Schubert); "Vesper Hymn" (Russian Air). By the combined choirs: "Nymphs and Shepherds" (Purcell); "Cuckoo" (French Folk Song). Individual vocal items were: ■ "When Maybells Ring" (Ernest Newton), by Jean Purvis; "Aye Maria" (BachGounod), by Eric de Mauny (violin lobbligato—Mr. Kenneth Magill); "Home, Little Maori" (Alfred Kill), by Melvyn Aston, with choir; "Unfolding" (Liza Lehmann), by Tui McLeod; "Hear My Prayer" (Mendelssohn), by Bruce Maxwell; "Let Me Wander Not Unseen" (Handel), by Pamela Alexander; "Goodnight, Pretty Stars" (Noel Johnson), by Graham White; "Wait" (Guy D'Hardelot), by Joan King; "An Oldfsshioned Town" (Squire), by Charles Lawrence; "O Peaceful England" (Ed. German), by Margaret Proctor; "Snowflakes" (Liza Lehmann), by Doreen Calvert.

The sympathetic accompaniments of Madame Evelyn de Mauny contributed not a little to the success of the concert.