HARMONIC SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 129, 28 November 1945, Page 9

HARMONIC SOCIETY

THIRD SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT

The third subscription concert oC the Wellington Harmonic Society, under the direction ot Mr. M. Temple While, attracted a good attendance to the Concert Chamber ot; the Town Hall last night. The soloists were Miss Gwenvth Greenwood, soprano, and the 'cellist. Miss Greta Oslova. Miss Or mi Reid and Mr Egbert Svenson acted as accompanists. Tlie programme comprised part songs for both male and female voices, together with numbers for the combined choir.

The choir opened the lengthy programme with "'Diaphenia," one of six Fli/abethan Pastorals set to music tor unaccompanied voices b.y Stanford, and followed ii with the lovely "Nocturne, ' lteibold's arrangement from -A Midsummer Nighi's Dream" (Mendelssohn), and "An fc'riskay Love Liil. an unusual folk song arranged as a p^-t sons.' by Hugh S. Robcrton and taken from*".Songs of the Hebrides.' "The Lee Shore," ;■ part .>ong tor mixed voices by Thomas Hood to

Coleridge-Taylor's music, was .sung with i.;oocl dramalie ciYect, ana Ine negro "spiritual -'Steal Away" proved one of the must popular items. Women members sang "Worn Lie Green He; ; rt of the Waters,* the nymphs' song, from "Ulysses (also by Coleridge-Taylor). "Sunset and Evening Star," arranged by Roberlon to the words by Tennyson, sung by the choir, was another enjoyable item, likewise the carol O Come, All Ye Faithful," from Rutland Boughtons -'Bethlehem." Other numbers included the "Nativity Cradle Song," a translation from the Marathi, Armstrong Gibbs s quartette and chorus, "Old Age, lhe Dawn jL' Song" (Bairsfow). and the Manx traditional melody, "Marry Me, Mary Veen." The concluding number was the triumphal march from "Sigurd Jorsalfar" < Grieg a. arranged oy Reibold. , . . Miss Greenwood made a good impression with her Rachmaninoff numbers ("At Night," "The Children,' and "Spring Waters"), and sang several modern numbers, '"A Forest Song^ (Whelpley), Gilberte's "Two Roses, and "The Answer." by HuntingtonTerry, very artistically. Miss Ostova played the Bruch arrangement of the Jewish lament "Kol Nidrei" with excellent tone, contributed the familiar "Songs My Mother Taught Me, by Dvorak, and concluded with a lively interpretation of Popper's "Hungarian Rhapsody." A feature of the concert was the sympathetic accompaniments by Miss Reid.