MUSICAL RECITAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 161, 24 June 1935, Page 8

MUSICAL RECITAL

Very great pleasure was experienced on Tuesday evening last by a genuinely musical audience which heard the vocal and instrumental recital arranged by Mrs W. C. Whitlock, says the “Bay of Plenty Times’’, Tauranga. From every standpoint the concert was good, particularly with regard to the choice of music. Every item was of high musical quality, the composers presented including Schubert, Brahms, Bach, Gluck, Cesar Franck, Elgar and Kreisler, with others. It is seldom that such a purely classical programme is heard, and the audience showed its keen appreciation of this recital. The programme was composed of vocal solos by Miss Dorothy Symonds, of Hastings; piano solos by Miss Gwen McLeod, also of Bastings; and viola items given by Mrs W. C. Whitlock. Mrs Whitlock and Miss McLeod also played Cesar Franck’s coiiata for 'violin and piano in A Minor. This was the biggest, item, presented. Beautiful shadings of the recurrent themes, and very delicate nuances in the melodic structure make the last movement especially' a splendid thing. The whole work is most noteworthy, and it can only be considered a great privilege to have heard it so well performed. Mrs Whitlock's playing displayed a masterly knowledge of her instrument, ns did Miss Mel.end’s, and both players revealed the beauties of the work very fully. Of Miss Symons it was said that she had laudably clear diction, a good memory and musical sincerity, with a voice of good promising quality, and it was safe to say she would give ninth pleasure to those who were her hearers.