MUSICAL STUDENTS' SOCIETY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 3

MUSICAL STUDENTS' SOCIETY.

There. is a very adriiirable institution"■ in Wellington known as the Musical Students' Society, oi' more frequently as the Girls' Practice Club. This was started two years ago by Mrs. Jamieson, who was then living at Keiburne, and during the two years of its existence it has proved a /©al help to the members. The rule of the club is.that each member, must practice half an hour a day, ai fine of a penny being inflicted for each clay of.'oniissioii. This does not seem very drastic, and one would not. think that tho fund to which the fines go, a fund for buying giees, would provide a very large library, but one member confesses to having paid two shillings in fines during the first month. _ It is to be supposed that after that .experience, she avoided a course that, would lead to such reckless expenditure. The club meets once a month during the greater part of.'the year, and at tho meetings a paper on. one "of. the great composers is read, and selection's from his works are played or sung;. Some of the members are working up for examinations, and so studying along given lines, 'but. the Others are expected to pay special attention to the works of the composer for tho' 1 month. Tho club meetings are very much enjoyed by the members, aud thoy • say that the rules servo to keep them tip to the mark in the matter of practising. The club wound up its session on Friday evening by a musical evening at Professor Richmond's, to which many of the members' friends were invited. During the evening Mrs. Watkins and 'Mrs. Cachemaillo played Hungarian ducts; Misses Doyley, Martin,' Webster, and Watkins played; and songs were given by Misses Newman and Hursthouse. There was a competition for (hiding composers' names from a confusion of letters, and this was won by Miss Hursthouse and Miss May. Newman. Another competition, where a few bars wore played and tho guests had to guess tho name of the niece, to which they belonged, was won bv Miss Wobstor. Among those present wer'a Mrs. Watkins, the president of tho club", Mesdamos" Cachemaillo, Martin, Tudor Atkinson, Sturtcvant, Stockcr, Hursthouse Misses Burnett (2), Watkins (2), Humphries' Ward, Hamerton, Sturtcvant, D'Oyley, anil I!. Richmond, and Messrs. Strickland Hursthouse, Newman, Cachemaillo (2), Watkins, Skinner, and Richmond. '