MR WHITE'S ORGAN RECITAL.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1469, 18 April 1911, Page 3

MR WHITE'S ORGAN RECITAL.

Those Avho attended Mr H. Temple White's organ recital m Wesley Church last night thoroughly enjoyed the vei-y excellent programme, tne items on which shoAved an advauce upon those of Mr White's previous recital. The organ is also showing improvement with use and settlement. The organist opened Avith Bach's Prelude in G-major, and this Avas ed by Batiste's Communion m E minor. By request, Mr White had placed Thomas' Mignon Gavotte on the programme, and this dehghtrul composition had to be repeated. Ihe tuneful morceau Avas excellently played Handel's Cuckoo and Nightingale Concerto and Schubert's delightful Serenade were Mr White's other items in the first part, and after an offertory had been taken up in aid of the Trust Fund, he played Scotson Clarke's melodious "Chorus of Angels," Saint Saen's "Le Cygne," and Lemmens' stirring "Fanfare." The organist Avas assisted by Miss Muriel Bennett, the young soprano from Wellington, who was in good voice, and continues to show marked .improvement as a vocalist. "To the Angels" was her first programme number, and. in response to an emphatic demand for more, she sang Mendelssohn's T Avill Sing of Thy Great Mercies." The same compeser was draAvn upon for Miss Bennett's second number, "Jerusalem, Thou that Killest."