SUCCESSFUL RECITAL

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19758, 13 December 1935, Page 5

SUCCESSFUL RECITAL

MYRA BOOTH’S PUPILS. AN ENJOYABLE PROGRAMME. The Winter Show Hall was crowded last night, when a concert was given toy the pupils of the Myna Booth Studio of Music. Interesting and entertaining items were given, and the programme was much enjoyed by the large audience. Mrs Myra Booth, whose beautiful singing always gives keen pleasure, was associated with Mr Graham Magill in the Miserere Scene from ‘‘II Trovatore” and “Are You Going to Dance?” frtom “The Count of Luxembourg,” the Ane voices blending harmoniously. Enthusiastically recalled, they sang the popular “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.” Mr Magill was also heard in the solos, “Muleteer of Malaga” and “Red Devon by the Sea,” to which his musical lyric tenor was particularly well suited. Miss Ruby Sutherland delighted the audience with “The Enchantress” and

“White Swanlike Beauty Gliding,” and Miss Alma Burton surmounted the difficulties of the florid “Vilanelle" with ease. Mrs Coralie O’Connor, in a pleasing rendering of “The Hinddo Song,” had the assistance of a violin obligato by Miss Isabel Leak. The other pupils did good work. Outstanding among them, perhaps, were Susan Arrowsmith, who sang “Autumn"; Jessie Shaw, “Softly Awakes My Heart”; and Nina Hollis, “The Piper from Over the Way”; but pleasing work was also done in the following items:—“The Little House I Planned,” Joyce Nicol; “Husheen,” Ceeile Parker; “What’s the Time, Blackbird?” Gladys Johnston; “Three,” Norah Old; “Sapphic Ode,” Valerie Porter; "The Cuckoo,” Essie Veats; “Arise O’ Sun,” Zoe Noonan; “The Enchanted Forest,” Desmond Liddy; “Laughing Cavalier,” Haydn Liddy; “A Soft Day,” Gretchen Otway; “There are Fairies at the bottom of our Garden,” Mara. Burtyl; “The Harvesters,” Desmond and Hadyn Liddy; “The Fairies” and “Climbing Trees,” Eddie Smith; “Roses of Picardy,” Joseph Scrimshaw; “Whither,” Norah Wilson; “Advice,” Lloyd ?T3sbet; "Orpheus with'Hi§ Lute,” (Olive Ball; “Five Eyes,” Keith Church; “The King's Minstrel,” William Whitehead; “O Mistress Mine” and "Eily A’Rroon,” Wynn Corboy; “My Heart is a Silent Violin," Sophie flyburn; pianoforte solo, “The Swans,” Jack Warrington. The concerted numbers were particularly enjoyable. ‘The Ladies’ Choir, under the baton of Mrs Booth, gave an artistic and well-balanced rendering of the negro spiritual, “ I Got a Robe”; “The Two Clocks,” a charmingly quaint item by Rogers; and “ When Twilight Weaves Her Gentle Spell (Beethoven). Tire trio, “Ye Banks and Braes," by Mrs Coralie O'Connor, Miss Nina Hollis and Miss Ruby Sutherland, was another enjoyable. item. The male voices were heard in a chorus, “ Peter Warlock's Fancy,” and a quartet, “Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl.'' The programme closed with a medley of operatic melodies from musical comedies, which revived many pleasant memories.

Tire performers and their teacher Mrs Myra Booth, received manv doral tributes.