HASTINGS B.M.S.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 125, 12 June 1937, Page 6

HASTINGS B.M.S.

Members Entertained By ''The Cameo Three" ' Tbe 1937 eeason of the Hastings branch of . tbe British Music Society opened last evening with a most de■lightful recital beld in tbe hall at Iona College, Havelock North.. Tbe recital was given by "Tbe Cameo Three," Molly Atkinson (mezzo soprano), W. ..Roy Hill (tenor) . and Clement Howe (piano), of Wellington, ihe programirie wa;s excellently- cbosen to suit tbe" particular beauty of the siugiars' voices, and judging from the insistent encores every item was tborougbly appreciated. Tbe programme was as follow : — Cameo; Miniatures. (Hurlstone ; arr. Howe) , (a) Bells, (b) Blossoms, (c) Darkness, (d) iUorniug. Gipsy songs (Dvorak, Op. 55), Moliy Atkinson, (a) iVly Song Resounds, (b) Hark I How i\ly Triangle, (c) Silent Woods, (d) Tune - Tby Fiddle, Gipsy ! (e) The Heights of Tatra; encore, Titania (Frederick Austin). Piano: Arabesque in E Major (Debussy). Trios: (a) A June Rose (Coleridge Taylor), (b) There By Many Shapes (Granville Bantock) ; Ifroan . Choral Dances, words J'ronx Euripides). Elnglisb songs: (W. Roy Hill), (a) O Peace, Tbou Fairqst Child (Arne, arr. Bantock), (b) .Milkmaids (Peter .Warlock), (c) To Daisies (Roger Quiiter), encore, an old Englisb folk song, "My ,Boy Biliy;" Cameo: Field and Furrow. Cameo: Nocturne*. Englisb " songs : • Molly Atkinson, (a) Bless My Brooms ;• (b) Neglected Moon (Armstrong Gibbs), (c) O. That It Were So! (Frank Bridge), (d) Sea Wrack (Hamdlton Harty) ; encore, "When 1 Was* One and Twenty." l>uet: Soontree (Norman Peterkin). Trio : The Lass of Richmond Hill.** Lieder; (W. Roy Hill), (a) Das Wandern, (b) Wanderer» CJacbtlied (Sc.bubert), .(c) Vergebliches Standchen (Brabms), (d) U.ber Nacht (Hugo Wolf). Cameo : Nigger Heaven ;* encore, Nursery Land.* God Save the Kiug. , Items marked * speclally written for "Tbe Cameo Three" by Clement Howe. * Before tbe programme conimenced Dr. K. E. Crompton, tbe society 's president, said: how grateful the society was for tbe use of the Iona College hall' for their coneert. -Before leavxng everyone enjoyed bot coffee and sandwicbes. A'mong the audience were :— Dr. and Mrs K. E. Crompton, the Missos Nancy and Cecil and Mr Leigh Crompton, Miss G. Grant, Mrs and Miss M. A. Steeie, Mrs 1. H. Blair and Miss Mary Blair, Mrs A. H. Eddie, Mr W. Rusb and Miss Helen Rusb, Mrs A. liockie, Mrs Hugb Small, Mr and Mrs Pope and Miss H. Pope, Mr and Mrs Corrigan, Miss Clarkson, , Mrs H. Thompson, Mr and Miss Claugbton, Miss D. Williams, Miss A. Black, Miss Nancy Crawford, Miss F. Fox, Mrs J. Wright, Mrs C. Gardner, Mr and Mrs C. B. Spinney, Miss E.. Pickett; Mr and Mrs R. Paynter, Mys D. Ritchie, Mrs Selwyn Chambers, Mrs Chapman Taylor, Mrs Edridge, Miss A. Lock, Miss F. Parkihson, Miss- M. Duff, Miss L. Baird, Miss M. Dalton, Mr and Mrs ,H. Gilbertson, Mx and Mrs W. A. G. Penlington, Rev. D. J. A. Shaw and Miss Alison Shaw, Mrs A. Cb'ristie, Miss McNeill, Miss E. Scotter, Mr and Mrs Gordon Roaeh, Mrs A. E. Palmer, Mrs W. A. Greer, Madame leLievre, Miss Yqgtherr, Mrs H. Lovell-Smith, and Mis* Joan Lov-ell-Smith.