A RECEPTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 18

A RECEPTION

MUSICIANS ENTERTAINED

Dr. Edgar L. Bainton, Director of the State Conservatorium of New South Wales and visiting • delegates ' to the music conference, were entertained- at a reception given in their honour by the local branch of the Music Teachers' Association in the Pioneer Club oa Thursday evening.. ■ There was a 1 large attendance. ■ ' ■" ■■'■-

The president, Mr. ■Cf or don Short, welcomed Dr. Bainton,and the,other visitors, and spoke in • appreciative terms of the value of Dr. Baintdn's wide experience to the summer school for teachers held recently. ■".. 7,

In replying, Dr. Bainton pointed out that although the air was charged-with, music today, it need,not imply a.,surfeit, but could be used as a stimulus for an ever advancing standard of appreciation and performance.- He encouraged teachers to retain a fresh interest in modern ideas, as the moderns of today might become the classics of tomorrow, as the history of art showed in the past. .". .■.•;'

A most enjoyable musical programme was interspersed with informal ';chat. Miss • Russell-Fergusson,;':;fai:'V^Uitihg authority on Hebridean folk-songs,-de-lighted -all with a gr.pup; ; pf iburijfoiksongs, ito^whicH she played"ahiacebmpaniment On -the Celtic harp;' ; Other much-appreciated items ; wereAftnree Russian songs by Miss■ Myra'_: Sawyer, .three songs by 'Mft:■•■';Rky Trewern, and - a group of; piandfprte solos by Mr." Max Scherefc,'ojt^OUnedin. Mr. Harvey Hudson, president-oii^he Auckland branch, ori y behalif I'of jthe visiting delegates, thanked/tHevl6cal branch ■■'at'the conclusion of-the >iWep« tion' for the delightful-; entertainment.