DUNEDIN COMPETITIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 15916, 23 September 1915, Page 6

DUNEDIN COMPETITIONS.

Seventh Dat.—Wednesday. There was a good attendance in the afternoon, the drees circle being.filled, and in. the evening, when Mr F. Calvert occupied the chair, the downstairs seats as well as these above were well patronised. The impromptu conversation contest provided plenty of interest, and its inclusion in the programme this jmr was amply justified. MUSIC. PIANO SOLO, Amateurs, under 18 years, who have never won a first prize in. the Dunedin Competitions— 1 Troika- ’ (Tsohaitowski). Prizes, £1 Is and 10s 6d. Miss Ague® Lawlor (WaLmate), 77 ... 1 Miss Nelly Varney, 72 2 Miss D. Naumann, 70 3 Also competed : Miss Myra Hails'll (Duntroon) 66, Miss Ivy Hume 65, Air Waiter James (Oamaxu) 68. Air Maclean said that the selection, had been very nicely rendered, and the competition very close. As to Miss Neumann's performance, in the third section the chorda had been nicely emphasised, but the bass was slightly indistinct. Miss Varney’s performance was a very fair one. Alms Lawlor was more animated, and there was more color in her performance. During the day she had obtained 74 marks, which ware now raised to 77. \ IOLIN SOLO, Amateurs, 16 years and over—‘ Fantasia Appassionata/ Ist Movement (H. Vieuxtemps). Prizes, £2 2s and 10s 6d. Mr Leonard Swan, 87 1 Miss Gourlay, 78 ... 2 Miss Iris A. Jacobs, 71 3 Mr Louis Spiro. 67, also competed. The Judge said the audience had listened to throe very nice violin performances. The composition was suited to the finished artist or virtuoso. Miss Jacobs’s attack was good, though the tone was somewhat hard and at times scratchy, ihe young lady had given a fair performance. A lies Gouiia.y’s attack was good in the opening, the ton© sweet, the intonation good, the bowing effective, and the double stopping and harmonics very creditable. Miss Gourlay gained three marks on her previous performance. Mr Swan opened well, and with dramatic expression. Ho produced a nice broad .tone, and his playing was of artistic quality. CHAMPION VOCAL SOLO (Ladies), open to all—(a) Operatic Air, own selection; (b) Ballad, own selection. Prizes, £5 5s and £2 2s. Miss Eebekah Can-, ‘Roberto O tu Che Adoro and ‘ Last Rose of Summer ’ (85 and 88—total 171) 1 Miss Alma Lefovre (Palmerston), ‘ Softly Awakes My Heart ’ and ‘Three Fishers’ (75 and 90—total 163) 2 Miss Daisy Hall, aria from ‘ Carmen ’ and prelude ‘Cycle of Life’ (75 and 85—total 160) 3 The other competitors were: Miss Helen Dixon (56 and 50—115), Miss Clare Dillo.n (67 and 72—159), Miss Saide Broad (73 and 76—154), Miss Almedia L. Colston (61 and 64—125), Miss Corrie Aslin. (76), Airs J. D. Dry (58 and 66—124), Miss Stella Murray (Christchurch, 80 and 76—156), Aliss Ethel Richards (57 and 85—142), Airs E. Cameron (71 and 75—146), Aliss Annie Yuill (56 and 68—124). Aliss Aslin sang only in the operatic air, having to withdraw last night owing to a cold. The judge said that Aliss Hall opened well in the operatic selection. The enunciation was excellent, but the tone had .been slightly marred bj a vibrato. In the ballad the attack in the upper register was effective, but parts had suffered from an occasional vibrato. Aliss Lefevre sang the operatic selection with dramatic force and feeling. In the case of Aliss Carr the opening in the ballad was a trifle hard. The intonation was excellent. It was a capital performance. In ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ the enunciation was true and clear, and the rendering a very pleasing one. SACRED SOLO, Alezzo-soprano, Amateurs—‘Eac ut Portem’ (Rossini’s ‘ Stabat Alater ’). Prizes, £2 2s and 10s 6d. The competitors were Aliss Eileen Schoen, Aliss Helen Lees, and Aliss Eva Ramsay. * The judge said he refused to give any marks at all. He was very sorry, but the item must come out of the programme. SACRED SOLO, Baritone, Amateurs—‘ O God, Have Mercy’ (‘St. Paul’). Prizes, £2 2s and 10s 6d. Recalls : Air Anthony Spears and Air J. H. Cocks (Christchurch). Also competed; Air Russell A r . Ritchie 47, Air W. E. G. Carr 55, Air J. H. Kerr 44. This was preliminarily heard in the afternoon. The final is on to-night’s programme. ELOCUTION. lAIPROAIPTU CONVERSATION, amateurs, lady and gentleman. Subject, ' The Next-door Neighbor.’ Prizes, £2 2s and 10s 6d. Air W. R. Sinclair and Aliss Elia Fraer 1 Air A. C. Toshach (Invercargill) and Aliss Hodgkinson 7 2 The judges were the Rev. IV. J. Ashford and All’s Lindo Ferguson. Air Ashford announced the finding. With regard to Air Toshach. and Aliss Hodgkinson, there had been a little hesitation at the start, and the parties had not been very evenly balanced, there being a very strongly-marked masculine preponderance. Air Sinclair and Aliss Fraer made a decidedly better opening, and were much more to the point in dealing with the subject. The touch of scandal was most appropriate. The outstanding feature was the smartness of the gentleman in his dialogue, and also the extreme naturalness which he assumed throughout the whole conversation. The lady was extremely good, but in parts and places had lacked repose. They lost themselves towards the end of the conversation, but recovered. DIALOGUE, amateurs, lady and gentleman—‘Hie Art of Love.’ (scene from ‘ The Hunchback ’ (J. Sheridan Knowles). Prizes, £2 2s and £1 Is. Air Stanley Lawson and Aliss AI. Tlirlisten (Dunedin), 70 1 Aliss E. APPeak and Air G. T. AiTlroy (Dunedin), 66 7 2 Air Paine said that it was very wrong to speak a soliloquy to the audience. Both the young ladies had. done that at the opening, and it was impossible for them to get gradation of tone when, they imagined they were speaking to those in front. Alias APPeak was much too quiet and reserved, and Aliss Thruston perhaps a litle too boisterous, but at the same time she had much, more spirit. Alany opportunities for humorous by-play had been lost by both parties. Mr APllroy was rather serious, and Mr Lawson, while not nearly so graceful, was better in facial expression. This dialogue was originally set down for to-night, but as Air Stanley Lawson was to leave to-day for Trentham the contest was taken last night, an opening being mad© by putting the final of the champion recitation into this evening’s programme. COMEDIETTA. Tho evening concluded with a performance of the comedietta ‘Lena’s Dream’ by Mrs Vivian’s party, in which Nellie Osborne, Alfred Wilson, Lizzie Vivian, Clive Vivian, Annie Lister. Emily Wilson, Ralph Vivian, aqd Sophie 'Vivian took part. j