SOLWAY COLLEGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 10

SOLWAY COLLEGE

ANNUAL CONCERT PRESENTED DY CLEVER PUPILS. PROGRAMME THOROUGHLY ENJOYED. The Solway College Assembly Hall was comfortably filled last night despite the wet weather when the pupils presented their annual concert. The programme was one which made an immediate appeal to the audience, be- ■ ing of a particularly high standard, i The singing of the pupils was delight- • ful to listen to. The orchestra was heard to advan- . tage in Rubenstein's “Melodic in F” and "Russian Lullaby,” and showed ' the result of the excellent training they had received. Through the classics from Handel's "Largo” to Strauss’s delightful "Spring is Here” the programme presented was thoroughly appreciated by the audience. The choir and singing classes showed tone and quality in their items and the varied programme enabled this to be brought out to the full. A programme of outstanding merit was brought to a close by a splendid play in three scenes entitled "Belinda.” The acting was of a high standard, and in keeping with the other items on the programme, reflected the greatest credit upon the instructors. The programme was as follows: — Piano duo, "Will o' the Whisp” (Maci dowell), Jocelyn Lassen, Thule Moffatt; piano solo. "The Merry Huntsman” (Merkel). Lois Fully n. "Romance" (Dunhill). Doreen Wakelin; piano duet, "Norwegian Dance”

(Greig), Diana Coleman, Peggy Lucas; Unison song, “Mr Sailorman,” part song, “Pokare Rare Ana,” junior singing class; piano solo, "Waltz in C Sharp Minor,” Helen Storey, “Waltz in E Minor” (Chopin), Pat Parsons; orchestra, “Melodic in F," “Russian Lullaby," violins, J. Clarkson. A. McGregor, R. Thomson, N. Peed; piano, G. Vance; viclincellos, Pat Blamires, J. Allen. G. Rowlands; conductor, M. Syme; piano solo. “Prelude and Fugue" (Bach), Gladys Vance. "Rondo" (Beethoven), Mary Syme; piano duo, "Rondo” (Gurlitt), Janet Allen, Eunice Jeffs; 'cello solo, “Largo,” Pat Blamires; part songs, “Chorus of Girls” (Mikado), "Hungarian Dance” (Brahms), the choir; piano duos, "Tambourin Chinois” and "Bourree’’ (Rameau-Moffat), Pat Blamires. Mary Syme; piano solo, "Adagio” (Beethoven). Janet Allen. "Barcarolle" (Rachmaninoff). Suzette Miller;' part songs, "Minuet” (Mozart), "Spring is Here" (Strauss), senior singing class; piano solo, “Sonata in F Sharp" (Beethoven), Joyce Eyre, "Ballad in A Flat” (Chopin), Pat Blamires; play, “Belinda,” an April folly in three scenes (the action takes place in Belinda's country-house in Devonshire, at the end of April): Belinda Tremayne, Constance Thomson; Delia (her daughter), Vivien Heighway; Claude Devinish, Nancy Thomson; Harold Baxter. Valerie Gordon; Jack Tremayne. Doreen Hughes; Betty, Jean Thornton.