SONG RECITAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19624, 19 October 1933, Page 4

SONG RECITAL

PI’PILS OF MR D. BLAIR. On Tuesday the audience at the recital given by the pupils of Mr D. Blair was privileged to hear some decidedly promising vocalists and it can be confidently expected that at subsequent appearances in public, they will be able to demonstrate the improvement which their tuition has wTought. Young singers at various stages were heard and a warm audience thoroughly appreciated a most praiseworthy evening's work on behalf of all who took part. The programme was a fairly lengthy one. but it was given in a manner that commanded attention, and the names of a varied list of composers ensured variety of a good class. A word of praise is, of course, due Mr Blair for the practical results of his vocal and artistic instruction to the students, but also is he to be complimented on the manner in which lie nlaved all the accompaniments. Each singer received decided but unobtrusive help. „ The evening's programme was amMarla" (Schubert'. “Serenade'' and “Lullaby" (Brahms), Miss Doris Taylor; "Angels Guard Thee (Godard) “The Birds go North Again (Wllieby). Miss Turner; “Celia'' (Old French), "I Hear a Thrush at Eve (Cadman), Claude Goulding; "Sing joyous Bird” (M Phillips). "Eleglc (Massenet). Miss Ellis; "Wheneer " Snowflake leaves the Sky" (Lehmann > •Caro Mlo Ben" (Olordant). Mis: Hopkins; “Vale" (Russell). "Dedication" (Franz>. MacGregor Brown; "An Island Shelling Song" 'Kennedy Fraser*. "Voi Che Sapetc" 'Mozart) I Mias Wills: “The Two Grenadiers

(Schumann). "All Thro' the Night (Welsh'. Edward Johnston; "Farewell to Summer" (Johnson). "Ombra Mat Fu" (Handel). Miss Fraser; "The Arrow and the Song Halfe), "Bou Epals" (Lully). Melville Blackmore; •Lullaby" (Cyril Scott); "The Lass with the Delicate Air" (Arne), Miss Mackav: “To Music" .Schuber*). “Cradle Song' (Schubert > Miss Reid; “Where'er You Walk (Handel). "In Native Worth" ( Haydn'. Allan Dale