PLEASING VOICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 7

PLEASING VOICES

HARMONIC SOCIETY NIGHT

A well-varied programme, admirably performed in tl^j main, was presented by the Wellington Harmonic Society at its third subscription concert of the year in the Concert Chamber last night. Mr. H. Temple White exercised his usual complete control of the voices and evidence of painstaking preparation for the occasion was unmistakable, especially in the part outstaudin iat by Ul° malQ V°ICCS alOno being Items by the full choir comprised the Hampshire folk song, "Swansea Town" (Hoist) : Wears part song, ".My Lovo Dwelt In a hv ™ nd"J "Goin> Home'" an adaptation by William Fisher of tho largo from Dvorak's symphony.. "From the New World," to which fine expression was imparted; a negro spiritual, Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley" (WilL !?. L-, lJaws°ii); "0 Gladsome Light" from Sullivan's 'The Golden Legend"- the nart s ™*> "Still as| the Night" (Can Bohn);^ Dorsetshire ballad "King Arthur," a delightful piece of part singing; "Naughty Mary" (Markham Lee), "Lullaby, My Sweet Little i™\ «£ l' A Celtlc Hymn" <arr- Robertn^VnH C°ra y.c Soon" (Brahm«)- and the rousing ?S5S ICEtcher;™ EmPire and for Ki^'' The male voices were heard in "Sylvia" by Harris), with Mr. J. C. Dellow as soloist and the amusing "Doctor Foster," done in the Handel style by Herbert Hughes. With May Hyara and Zita Austin, violinists, and Harold Whittle assisting at the piano, the ladies of n^T^^%zsr s' "m'sinsias Miss Austin was encored for her playing of Allegro Brilliant" (Have), and eho also earned applause for her subsequent performance of Kreislcr'B setting of Dvorak's "Slavonic "MazourM" ° Minor" and Wleniawski's Miss Myra Sawyer, soprano soloist, was In good voice in Liszt's "The Loreley," and the encore, "Devotion" (Schumann). Her other numbers, "At Night" (Rachmaninoff), "A B-W« a» «>(C? rIeSV and tho lUtins "Yarmouth * Jii (Peter Warlock) were of an equally high standard in feeling and clarity. Mr. Whittle was, as always, a competent and sympathetic accompanist.