MISS MAIDA HOOKER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 July 1924, Page 4

MISS MAIDA HOOKER.

PIANOFORTE RECITAL NEXT TUESDAY. An evening of great pleasure to all lovers of music has been arranged by Miss Maida Hooker, A.R.C.M., for her recital at the Opera House on Tuesday evening next, and the programme chosen will give her ample scope to display the artistic gift which *she undoubtedly possesses. Miss Hooker brings from the Royal College of Music the latest methods, in which the instruments for the production of beautiful harmony and melody—the piano and the fingers and arms—are entirely subjected to the mind. The piano is the most popular of instruments, but there are very few people who have the gift of making the music which they play live. Miss Hooker has that power, and at Tuesday evening’s recital she will give to her audience many of the thoughts of great composers whose names will live for ever. Bach, who many authorities think was the greatest composer the world has known, has returned to favour in the Old World during the last few years. Miss Hooker has selected four of his compositions for her programme, and these will show that Bach had his gay moods as well as those serious, days when he composed his more sombre fugues. Chopin, the genius of piano composition, will be represented by the G minor Ballade and the glorious Nocturne Op. 15, No. 2. Schumann, whose works are too little played, will be heard in two Ki eisleriana. (N os. 6 and 7)'j Brahms in the entrancing Capriccio in B minor; Liszt in Rhapsody No. 10, in which from delicate harmonies, embroidered with many glissandos, is developed a typical climax. The programme will also include Rhapsody in C major (Dohnanyi), full of fire and life; Medtnor s attractive Fairy Tale; and Dehussy’s Gardens in the Rain, in which the sense of rhythm is of great importance. The programme, which is exceptionally interesting, will -enable Miss Hooker not only to show that she has mastered technique, but has also developed to a high standard her powers or expressing the thoughts of the composers, and, assisted by Miss Webb Jones and Mr \Yill Hutchens, Mus. Bar., who will sing a number of solos, tU® recital will no doubt prove a memorable one in the history of music in South Taranaki.