BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 16

BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY

The first meeting of the British Music Society piano group for 1940 was held in Wellington recently. Miss V. Corliss, honorary organiser of the society, announced that Mr. T. J. Young, director of music at the Teachers' Training College,, had agreed to accept the leadership of the group. Miss Corliss introduced Mr. Young, who said "that he very much appreciated the honorary organiser's invitation for him to become leader. He felt that the work was a responsibility, and one in which he was intensely interested.

Mr. Young commented . favourably upon the year's programme which the group's committee had arranged. He said it covered a wide field of musical thought and activity and its various aspects promised special possibilities of stimulation of interest in these present times. He referred to the policy of the piano group's co-operation with the song and string groups, stressing the advantage of this co-ordination in music-making. An interesting and varied programme followed. It consisted of a chorale by Bach (arranged by Rummel), two chorales by Hanff (arranged by Rummel), three Chopin numbers, Study in C Sharp Minor, Fantasie-Imp'romptu, and Nocturne in F Sharp Major; Prelude and "To the Moon." by Swinstead, "Golliwog's Cakewalk," by Debussy, and "Hexentanz," by McDowell/ Thej players were Misses E. Watts, G.™Johnston, T. Lewin, L. Black, M. Fleming, D.Bali, and Mr. K. Ficton.