PIANO STUDENTS’ RECITAL

Southland Times, Issue 23535, 15 June 1938, Page 15

PIANO STUDENTS’ RECITAL

High Standard Of Playing ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME PRESENTED In a long and interesting recital at the Women’s Club rooms last night pupils of tile O’Byrne School of Music presented a programme of pianoforte numbers which reached a very J-igh standard. The performers covered all grades and included very young players in attractively selected juvenile pieces as well as advanced studentsin highly technical classical works. The playing was uniformly excellent, the pieces having been carefully selected to suit the grade of the performers and the result was an extremely enjoyable evening of music. The second half of the programme was particularly interesting to the big audience. It included two concertos arranged for two pianos and other duos and duets as well as solos of unusual interest Duets, duos and double duos were featured among the items of the junior performers and also a sextette. The playing in all sections reflected greatly to the credit of the principal and teachers of the school. Included in the. programme were recitations and musical monologues. The first half of the programme was as follows:—Duet, “Military” Polonaise (Chopin) Olwen Holmes and Phyllis HaJL Marie Meredith in two small numbers. National pieces, (a) ’ Volga Boatmen,” (b) “Blue Bells of Scotland, (c) “My Bonnie,” Keith Lang. Solo, “The Busy Clock” (Black), Derek Watson. Duet, “Violet” (Smith), Helen rnd James McKenzie. Solo, “The Moon (Weybright), Gwenda Woodward. Solo, “Robin’s Lullaby” (Krogmann), Alice Buchanan. Duo, “In the Ball Room” (Ludwig Schytte), first piano Joan Menzies, second piano Shirley Mitchell. Solo, “The Lonely Lake’ (Hedwig McEwen), Clare Broad. Duet, “Cornflower” (Smith), lan and Derek Watson! Solo, “The .Fox Hunt” (Munn), Joan McDonald. Trio, “The Three Students” (Collins), Marjory, Rona and Pat Holloway. Solos, (a) “Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground (b) “Camptown Races,” James Simmonds. Duet, Waltzes Nos. 13 and 15 (Brahms), Helen Dalgamo and Elsie Waldron. Sextette, “Alpine Song, Helen McKenzie, John McDonald, Clare Broad, Betty Stewart, Bertha Brandford, Julia Millar. Recitation, “The Crowning of Dreaming John” (John Drinkwater), Joan Parfitt. Solo, Polonaise in C Minor (Chopin), Peggy Sim. Duet, “Russian Dance” (Markham Lee), Rona and Marjory Holloway. Solo, “Night Sounds” (Weybright), Jose Rodrique. Duet, “Pixie’s Good Night Song” (Brown), Beth and Mary McMillan. Solo, “The Gay Cavalier” (Ketterer), Daphne Mair. Double Duo, “Military March” (Schubert), first piano lan Burns Watson, Douglas Jenkins, second piano Helen McKenzie, Neil Menzies. Solo, Toccata (C. Chaminade), Aliena Collie. Trio, “Gipsy Rondo” (Haayn), Catherine Greenfield, Molly O’Sullivan and Dorothy Miller. Solo, “Jingles” (Zamecnik), Rona Holloway. Duet, "Italy” (Rakoff), Sheila and Marjory Campbell. Solo, Hungarian Rhapsodie, No. 10 (Liszt), Allan Tregonning. Double duo, “Dance Macabre” (Saint-Saens), first piano Aliena Collie, Peggy Sim; second piano Allan Tregonning, Shelah Gough, A.T.C.L. The second half was: Solo, “Fur Elise” (Beethoven), Shirley Mitchell. Duet, “Bohemia” (Rakoff), Niel and Joan Menzies. Solo, Rhapsodie in D Minor (Koelling), Catherine Greenfield. Duo, “South of Rio Grande” (Jaques Miller), first piqno, Allan Gilkison; second piano, Joy McCrostie. Duo, “Hark! Hark the Lark” (Schubert), first piano, Adeline Waddell, A.T.C.L.; second piano, Irene Shiels. Solo, “A Romp” (Bowen), Phyllis McIntosh. Duo, Concerto No. 2 in D Minor (Ist Movement) —(Mendelssohn), solo, Allan Tregonning; second piano, Desmond Stone. Solo, “Little White Donkey” (Ibert), Irene Shiels. Duet, Sonata in D Major (Mozart), Audrey Stone and Dorothy Anderson. Solo, “Deuxieme Mazurk” (Godard), Desmond Stone. Musical monologue, “England’s Emblem,” Joan Parfitt. Solo, “Ballade—Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” (Bantock), Joy McCrostie. Solo, Polonaise No. 1 in C Sharp Minor (Chopin), Dorothy Anderson. Solo, Scherzo No. 1 in B Flat Minor (Chopin), Allan Tregonning. Duo, Concerto in A Minor Op. 16 (Ist Movement) —(Greig), solo, Mrs A. F. Manning (gold medallist), L.T.C.L., L.R.S.M.; second piano, Allan Tregonning, L.T.C.L., L.R.S.M.