SECOND MUSIC WEEK

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

SECOND MUSIC WEEK

TEN FINE PROGRAMMES VARIED ARRAY OF CONCERTS. RESUME OF FESTIVAL ITEMS. The second annual Music Week at New Plymouth will commence to-mor-row, and ten varied concerts have been arranged for the seven days’ festival. The week will be devoted to the public performance and appreciation of music as a fine art and has been especially arranged to cultivate a love for music among the children. To-morrow afternoon will see the official opening of the week’s programme, when Haydn’s oratorio, the "Creation,” will be presented by the New Plymouth Choral Society at the Opera House. The conductor will be Mr. R. Laurie Cooper, the orchestral leader Miss E. L. Dowling, and the pianiste Miss A>leen Horner. The soloists will be Miss Vera Moginie (soprano), Mr. W. L. Hay (tenor), and Mr. Harold Ackroyd (baritone).

In the evening an interesting programme by the First Battalion Taranaki Regimen. Band under the direction of Lieutenant F. W. G. McLeod, will be given in the Opera House. Frequent band,items will be-interspers-ed by songs and cornet solos. T-ht third concert, which is to be given in the Workers’ Hall by Mies Constance Leatham’s Music Club, will consist mainly of part songs, although there will be ’ several pianoforte and string items and vocal solos. There will be in all sixteen items and a wide variety of music that should, have*an instant appeal will be presented. The New Plymouth Girls’ and Boys? High Schools’ concert parties directed by Miss M. J. Fearn and Mr. J. Dobson, will give the fourth programme at the Opera House on Tuesday night. The first part of the concert. is to be rendered by the girls and the second by the boys. Unison and part songs and dancing will figure largely in the first part, and orchestral and instrumental music will take up the major portion of the second part. An organ recital in St. Mary’s Church by Mr. R. Neville Renaud will form the programme on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock. The first portion will .be devoted-to five- pieces by A. Hollins, Hammond, Karg-Elert, A. Guilmant and J. Haydn, while the second part will consist of two of M. de Falla’s works and a bracket of six by J. S. Bach. The newly re-organised New Plymouth Orchestral Society will make its first official appearance in the ’sixth concert in the Workers’ Hall on Wednesday night. The programme, which will be under the direction of Mr. F. W. G. MfLeod, will consist of numerous orchestral items’ interspersed with vocal quartettes and solos. Eight New. Plymouth primary schools will combine to give the seventh concert in the Opera House on Thursday night. The schools participating will be Westown, Fitzroy, Fitzroy Convent, Sacred Heart Convent, St. Joseph’s West End, Moturoa and Central. The, concert ..will conclude with two selections for massed choirs.

A chamber music recital. directed by Mrs. F. R. P. Fredric and Mies E. L. Dowling will form the eighth event and will take place in the Workers’ Hall on Friday afternoon at 2.30 o’clock. Instrumental sextettes, quintettes, quartettes and trios will be given by leading New Plymouth players. . . The ninth programme will bo given in the Workers’ Hall on Friday night and will include a recital by the New Plymouth Citizens’ Band under the direction of. Messrs. R. L. Lowe, and F. R. P. Fredric, vocal solos, and items by the Caledonian Society Pipe Band. The final concert, will be a-cosmopoli-tan array of songs and vocal items, the “music of the nations,”- and will be directed by Mr. Rupert George. This will take place in the Workers’ Hall on Saturday evening. ' ' 1