PIANOFORTE RECITAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20271, 2 December 1927, Page 13

PIANOFORTE RECITAL.

MISS CHAMPION’S PUPILS,

There , was. a very large auditory in the Bristol Concert Chamber last evening to hear th© pupils of Miss Aimee Champion play. It is evident : from the number of juvenile pianistes who gave solos that Miss Champion must have a large number of young students, and Judging, from? results they have profited by the tuition they have received. There were, natuo ally, several who had not passed the early stages of tuition, but even these gava promise for the future. The more advanced pupils gave unmistafceable evidence of careful training,- and what is’ better, gave distinct indications of having an intuition of their ’ own. The teacher cap, after all, only lay the foundation; the rest lies with the pupil. The programme was extremely lengthy, but many of the solos, especially for t;he very; juvenije girls, were very short, though amply, sufficient to afford an idea of the young performers’ ability being found. In the senior section such music as the first movement of Haydn’s Sonata in F, the largo from Beethoven’s Sonata in E flat, three movements of the same composer’s sonata in F sharp, and works by Chopin, William Alwyn, Greig, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, and Moskowski, The performers were Nyra Thompson, Jean Russell (a duet),, Patsy Stephens, Joan White, Lloyd Joel, Connie Walker, Hector Gibson, Audrey .Meek, Marion Fairburn, Valmai Sundstrum, Patricia Duncan, Margaret Angel, Evelyn Rosevear, Wyvern.de Clive Lowe (solos), and Elsie Macfarlane and Marion Fairburn (duet). These were mostly, if not all, in the junior division, and. they acquitted themselves very creditably. In a more advanced stage came Gwen Macey, Hilda Wallace,, Phyllis M. North, Kathleen Angel, Gladys E. Benton, Moura Foster, several of whom played twice. They were all soloists, anil ,in nearly every instance played.’works of Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin, Greig, Rachmaninoff, and composers of that class. A Spanish dance by Kathleen Angel and Gwen Macey was very capably played in the second portion of the programme. Miss Champion is to be congratulated upon the evident good result of her endeavours to cultivate the inherent taste for music her pupils possess in a varying degree. .