PIANO GROUP MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 7

PIANO GROUP MEETING

Three recitals formed the programme for the British Music Society's Piano Group meeting which was held lasi night, led by Miss Ngaire Murphy. Mr. Lionel i Harris, the first recitalist, chose . delightful numbers from the works of Bach, Brahms, and Chopin. Miss Shirley Craig played a Schubert Sonata, a descriptive piece by Schumann, and some modern numbers by Cyril Scott and Percy Grainger. Mr. Paul Magill, the third performer, played a varied bracket of Mendel** sohn, Rubenstein, Sibelius, and Liszt. . A meeting was held subsequently to elect officers for the coming year, Miss Lorna Black being the chairwoman. A vote of thanks was tendered to the retiring secretary and committee for their good work during the past year. Miss Ngaire Murphy was re-elected secretary, and as a result of a ballot the following members will form a committeei-^-Misses Dorothy Buck, Shirley Craig, Dorothy Downing, Patricia Inns, Catherine Moncrieff, and Mr. K. Picton. There was a splendid attendance of members and friends, amongst those present being Mesdames Downing, Hardy, and Magill, Misses M. Dixon, W. Amos, D. Knapp, Eileen Watts, J. Marchant, M. Moleta, H. Smith, and Messrs. C. Morrison, J. McGill, and H. Arnold.