TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 26

TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

PRESENTATION.-OF AWARDS. At the Town -Hall Concert Chamber on Friday evening the medals, prizes, and higher certificates gained, in the local examinations of 1929 were distributed by the Rev. Professor Hewitson, president of the Dunedin Centre. There was a large attendance. Prior to the distribution of the awards a programme of music and recitation was rendered, and the audience showed their appreciation of every item by according the warmest applause. The programme was as follows: —Piano solo, “To the Rising Sun” (Torjussen), Annie Hoseit (preparatory); piano solo, “ Novellette ” (Gurlitt), Joyce Johnson (junior); piano solo, “Rondo,” from Sonata, Opus 14, No. 1 (Beethoven), Andriena Wright (intermediate); piano solo, “The Naiads” (Farjeon), Pickett, sen. (winner of Bristol Piano Company’s _gold medal) ; -piano solo “La Polka de la Reine ” (Raff), Florence Gillies (higher local), winner of Higher Local Exhibition, National prize, and local committee’s gold medal; recitation, “ The Listeners ” (Walter de la Mare Mercia Hardman (licentiate); piano solo, “ Study in C sharp minor, Opus 25 ” (Chopin), Betty Blamires (associate); piano solo, “ Tocata in C minor’ (Bennett), Mavis Thurston (asso"ciate); vocal solo, “ Fair Spring is Returning ” (Saint Saens), Agnes May Brook (associate), winner of local committee’s exhibition and Messrs Chas. Begg and Co.’s gold medal; piano solo, “Study in D flat major (Liszt). Mavis Shaw (licentiate); piano solo, “Polonaisein A flat major, Opus 53” (Chopin), Sybil Wallace (fellowship); piano solo, “2nd Polonaise in E major” (Liszt). Sybil Baker (fellowship). The chairman said that the entries for all grades numbered 962 in 1930 and 964 in 1929, or nearly 1000 candidates, which meant a very great deal of work for the secretary (Miss Beatrice Barth). There were 62 entries for the degree of A.T.C.L., of whom seven had completed the course; 27 for L.T.C.L., of whom six had completed the course; and seven for F.T.C.L., of whom three had completed the course. The names of those who had qualified for the F.T.C.L., the highest diploma given by the college, were:— Sybil Baker, for piano (pupil of Miss Yorston); Sybil Wallace, for piano (Barth School of Music); and Madge Yates, for elocution (pupil of Miss Thomson). _ The chairman also announced the following awards: —Bristol Company’s gold medal for senior practical, Nellie Pickett (pupil of Miss Grieve), Chas. Begg and Co.’s gold medal, highest marks in either A.T.C.L. or L.T.C.L., Miss Brook (pupil of Mr Drake); local committee’s gold medal for higher local theory, Miss Florence M. Gillies (pupil of Miss Hume); local committee’s gold medal for higher local practical, Miss Forence M. Gillies (pupil of Miss Hume) ; National prize (£5), awarded by Trinity College, London, to the candidate who passes the higher local theory and higher local practical in the same year, who gains 85 marks in each, and is under 18 years of age, Miss Florence M. Gillies. The exhibitions :were secured as under, awarded by the College in London, three of the value of £6 6s each for intermediate theory, Jessie Jackson and Ruth Reynolds (pupils of the Barth School of Music) and Riggs (pupil of Miss Yor ston); one of the value of £l2 12s, for higher local practical,. Miss Florence M Gillies (Miss Hume); awarded by the local committee an exhibition of £2O, Miss Agnes May Brook (pupil of Mr Drake' This exhibition entitled the holder to tuition in two cultural subjects at the University as well as a year’s tuition in her particular subject. Dr Vaughan Thomas’s report on Miss Brook was: “ She is a singer of distinct promise; the voice is very well founded and managed, and possesses a marked degree of charm and expression. Her notes revealed sincerity and feeling, imagination, and intelligence.”

The list of medals, prizes, and diplomas is as follows: —

Theoretical. —Preparatory: Betty Alldred, Annie Hoseit, Edna M. Thomson. Junior: Nancy Taylor, John M'Fadzien Hazel Philip. Advanced junior: Jean M'Corkindale, Ivy D. Bishop. Intermediate: Arthur Barth, Dorothy MTntosh, Ruth Reynolds, Stanley Riggs, Jessie Jackson. . Advanced intermediate. Norman Henderson, J. Jackson. Senior: Nellie Pickett, Marjory Nind. Higher local: Cecilia Millow.

Elocution.—Preparatory: Ngaire Glue. Junior: Joy Knowles. Intermediate: Helen Moffatt. Senior: Joyce Cooper. Higher local i_Marion Webster. Practical.—First steps.: Marion Dryden. Preparatoy: Annie Hoseit. Junior: Joyce M. Johnson. Intermediate: Andreina Wright. Medals.—Senior (Bristol Piano Co. gold medal): Nellie Pickett. High local (local committee gold medal) : Florence Gillies. Dipoma practical (Messrs Chas. Begg and Co. gold medal): Agnes May Brook (singing) . Higher local theory (local centre gold medal): Florence Gillies. Higher Certificates. —Jean Johnston Cairney, Beryl Emilie B. Cooper, Lena May Henderson, Emily Guthrie Rigby, Phyllis Smith. Associates. —Margaret Bartholomew, Annie Elizabeth Booth, Phyllis Florence Bromby, Beryl Emilie B. Cooper, Evelyn Rose Cox, Vivienne Enid de Berry, Barbara Simpson Downs, Margaret Alicia Gardner, -Thelma Marguerite Gemmell. Annie Moore, Margaret Phelan, Margaret Rice.

Licentiates. — Muriel Caddie, Jean Eleanor Cubrtt, Ellen Hina Lightfoot, Noeline Muriel Marshall. Ada Mary Sligo (violin), Margaret Blair Whalan, Millicent Rodger (special merit certificate). Elocution. —Associates: Ellen Veronica Henaghan, Joyce Hould, Eileen Mary Houston, Mary Josephine Meade, Mary Trainor, Dorothy May Clarke, Mollie Gallagher, Eileen M. Houston, Winifred M. Martyn. Mary Trainor. Fellowships: Sybil Hannah Baker (piano), Ruby Sybil Wallace (piano), Margaret Aligua Yates < elocution). The concert was closed with a verse of the National Anthem, sung by the gathering. '