PUPILS' RECITAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 74, 29 March 1933, Page 3

PUPILS' RECITAL

The pupils of Thomas C. Wood acquitted themselves well last night, when they gave an enjoyable programme, of ballad songs in the Town Hall Concert Chamber. There was every evidence of careful and thorough tuition in the.art of voice production. Mr. H. Matthew and Mr. F. Histed were the two outstanding baritones figuring on the programme. The former sang with effect ''The Smugglers' Song" (Mullinar) and, "Don Juan's Serenade" (Tsehaikowsky), and had the support of the chorus in "Danny Deever" (Damrosch). The chorus also sang "Jonathan Jones" with effect. Mr. Histed sang '•Sons of the Sea" (Coleridge-Taylor) and "I Travel the Road" (Thayer). Another effective baritone was Mr. R. Cowie, who sang "The Vagabond" (Vaughan Williams) and "The Raiders" (Collins). He also appeared with Miss Alma Cowie in the amusing duet "The Singing Lesson" (Squires), Miss Cowie's pleasing mezzoi soprano voice also being heard to advantage in "Carmena" (Lane Wilson) and "Trees" (Rasbaeh). The tenor soloists were Mr. T. McNair, who sang "0 Flower of all the World" (Woodforde-Finden) and "Turn Ye to Me" (Lawson), Mr. A. Blackie, whose songs* were "You Flaunt Your Beauty in a Rose" (Liza- Lehraann) and "Long and Long Ago" (Florence Tur-ner-Maley), and Mr. A. Hines, who sang Tomorrow" (Keel) and "Here in the Quiet Hills" (Came). . Mr. A. Francis, another baritone, sang very pleasingly 'Friendships" (Lohr) and "Looking Homeward" (Came). Miss Hilda Stevenson, who has a light soprano voice, sang "A Memory" (Goring Thomas) and "Gipsies" (Graham Peel) very charmingly. Mr. Stuart Petersen contributed to the success of. the entertainment by his violin solos, "Souvenir" (Drdla), "Liebeslied" (Kreisler'), "Serenata" (Toselli), and "The Rosary" (Kreisler-Nevin). He was obliged to respond with a couple of encores. Mr. Wood himself rounded off the programme ,by singing "II Lacerato Spirito" from.Verdi's opera, "'Simon Bpccanegra." His fine bass-baritone voice was heard to advantage with the violin' obbligato played by Mr. Petersen. The accompaniments of the songs were played by Mr. Clement Howe, Miss Violet Wakelin, and Mr. Wood.