PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 58, 2 December 1907, Page 8

PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS.

CONSERVATOIRE FOR NEW . ZEALAND, There' was a good attendance at tho third social of the Wcllincton Society of Professional Musician's, which was held in the Eowen Street Schoolroom, on' Saturday evcuini;. • An interest- • ing, address was jriveu Louis Cohen on the'proposal, of ilie University S'enato to form .a conservatoire of riiusic; in- New Zealand. In the course'of his remarks ..'Mr,- Cohen emphasised the fact that .the .proposal bad no eoiihedliori with legislation or ty'registration of teachers, and- pointed out that at-, present over «C4oof> left the Dominion ai'inually in fees as tho .result of the raaminat'iori' opera!ions of the Royal. Academy and Trinity College, which .nioney, would. iu. time be , kept in' the country if a conservatoire were, established on the right, lines. The Home' colleges avqrml that thoy wore only- doing missionary work— conducting examinations- that would uol: be held' at; all but for -'theiri,, and .it: remained for musical people to, move .in tbo direction of' establishing ._ ail .institution that would undertake all such work. The musical programme of.the evening'iri; eluded -two :original • compositions—a trio for violin.''cello, apd piano, ,by .Her r Max Hoppo, Mr. Frank Johnston, and tlio composer. (Mr, Maughan Barnett),. arid, a ..'caprice . for tho pianoforte by Mr. Horace Hunt. Other items wore the song, "Sees't thou at. eve" (Kalliwoda), by Mre. . Glover Eaton; (with violin obligato by Hbrr -Hoppo), - a piano solo, '"Ballade" Brahnis), • by.- Miss Seal'ey;- and' Kathorin'o's song from "Tlio Taming -of the Shrew" (Goetz), .by .Miss Phoebe Parsons.. Miss Heatrice Ricliitiond plajfcd, tlio accompaniments.- •