MUSIC TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24449, 7 November 1940, Page 12

MUSIC TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION

STUDENTS’ CLUB RECITAL The second recital of the newlyformed Students’ Club was given on Saturday evening to a la-ve and enthusiastic audience in Begg's Salon. There is a refreshing ease and flexibility about the work of these young people which is altogether admirable, and augurs well for the future. The infectious enthusiasm of the audience, which was composed of eager students, was conveyed to the performer, and the result was an exhilarating effort, Mr G. W. Johnstone, who presided, managed to reduce nervousness to a minimum by his encouraging remarks. The programme was as follows: Piano duet. “Wedding Day" (Greig), Olive and Elise Neiper; piano solo, “Presto from Sonata in G” (Mozart), Ngaio Gladwin: songs, “ The Modest Heart” (Hugo Wolf) and “Up There on the Hill” (Mahler), Thelma Thomson (accompanist, Kathleen Allan); piano solos, “Arabesque in C” (Heller), “April Shower” (Alwyn), and “Rusjh Hour in Hongkong" (Chasins), Heather Mclntyre; song, ‘Dream o’ Day Jill” (Edward German), June Holmes; piano solo, “Reflects dans I’eau" (Debussy), Lawrence Scott; violin solo, “Hejre Kati ” (Hubay), Edith Dodd (accompanist, Ray, McGarrigle); piano solo, “ Claire de lun'' ” (Debussy), Lucy Robertson; songs, “Willow Song” (Sullivan) and “Cherry Bloom” (Farjeon), Clara Rouse (accompanist, Kathleen Allan); Quartet, “Romanza

from String Quartet” (Lachner), Ailsa Pqulter (first violin), Walter Metcalf (second violin), Mavis Dobbin (viola), and Kathleen Dobbin (’cello); piano solo, “Arabesque in E" (Debussy), Kathleen Bell; piano solo. Devotion ” (Schumann Liszt), Audrey McCaul; songs, “ Sea Winds ” (Harrison) and “Give a Man a Horse” (Head), William Sutherland (accompanist, William Clarke); piano solo, “ Study in D ” (Liszt), Marie Hunt.