AMATEUR MUSICAL CLUB.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19124, 16 September 1925, Page 15

AMATEUR MUSICAL CLUB.

A very enthusiastic audience attended the Auckland Amateur Musical Club's concert in tho Town Hall last evening. The club's orchestra, which gave spirited interpretations of a number of varied classical selections, was assisted by Miss Margaret Stoddart, Miss Laura Stone and Messrs. S. Pritchard, H. Richards and A. McElwain. Mr. Cyril Towsey played the accompaniments.

The frequent demands of the audience for encores considerably lengthened the programme. Mr. McElwain was so much in demand that, he was obliged to beg the audience to let him go to keep an appointment. Miss Stoddard's violin solos were notably to the taste of the audience, who called her back for two encores. Miss Stone and Messrs. Pritchard and Richards were not less favoured. Among encore items particularly appreciated were the "Harbour Night Song," by Mr. Pritchard, "Three Fishera," by Miss Laura Stone, and two songs by Ivlr. McElwain entitled, "I Had a Little Garden" and " The Passionate Persian Poet," appropriate music for the latter item being supplied by Mr. Towsey. The orchestra's items included :—March, "Boccacio" (Suppe); overture to "Rosamunde" (Schubert), "Poeme Elegique" (Fucik), and gavotte from "Mignon" (Thomas); triumphal march-from "Cleopatra" (Mancinelle), a suite from the "Ballet Egyptieii" (Luigini), and selection from "Faust" (Gounod). The proceeds of the concert will be donated to the Blind Institute building fund.