SOLWAY COLLEGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 4

SOLWAY COLLEGE

EXCELLENT CONCERT BY PUPILS DELIGHTFUL PIANOFORTE ITEMS. OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRAL WORK. There was the largest audience on record at the annual concert given by the pupils of Solway College in their assembly hall on Monday evening. It was an interesting and varied entertainment of pianoforte and orchestral items, choir and chorus and singing, concluding with a one-act drama “A Room, in the Tower,” in which the characters of Lady Jane Grey and Mary Tudor and two waiting women were feelingly rendered by Patricia Blamires. Nola Dockery. Margaret Robins and Suzette Millar. The rendering of the play reflected credit on the elocution teacher, Miss Elizabeth Thomas.

The pianoforte items were delightful, some of the work being outstanding, notably that of Patricia Blamires and Joyce Eyre, both of whom revealed a musicianship beyond their years. An interesting feature of the concert was the orchestral work which has been under the supervision of Mr. Leon De

Mauny, and Mr. Claud Tanner, of Wellington. The work of the small orchestra was far in advance of anything that has yet been heard at the school. But perhaps the artistic and refreshing singing of lhe choir contributed most of all to the evening’s enjoyment. The fresh young voices artistically trained were heard to advantage under the conductorship of Mesdames Pinkney and Williams. The following was the programme: Pianoforte solos: —"The Happy Hunter” (Harold Craxton), Margaret Cave; "Grandmother’s Minuet” (Grieg), Joan Couling "River Magic” (Dorothy Pilling), Heather Macdonald. Violoncello j solo, “Song Without Words,” Diana Coleman. Pianoforte solos, “Poetic Tone Picture” (Grieg) Kathleen Williams; “Nocturne in B Flat” (Field), Shirley Roberts; "Woodland Sketch” (MacDowell), Theodora Morice; “Aubade” (Ivor Foster), Molly Courtney. Part Song, "Birdie’s Message” (Alfred Wheeler), Junior Choir. Pianoforte

oUJUo, VVclllZ. 111 J.L IVlclJUl (tollUjJUl', Francie Brown, "Sonata in B Minor," (Scarlatti), Erica Poulgrain; “Titania Sleeps” (Harold Craxton), Joy Craine; “Golliwog’s Cakewalk (Debussy), Thule Moffatt. Orchestral pieces, “Yestei’ Dreams,” “Russian Lullaby” (Zamenisk). Violins: Romola Thomson, Alison McGregor, Nancy Peed; violoncellos: Patricia Blamires, Janet Allen, Glenys Rowland, Diana Coleman, piano: Suzette Millar. Pianoforte solos, "Sonata in C sharp minor,” :Ist and 2nd movement (Beethoven), Suzette Millar; “Rondo Capriccioso” (Mendelssohn), Patricia Blamires. Part songs: "A Hunting Song” (George Rathbone), Form HI. choir; “A Piper” (Harold Greenhill), Form VI. choir. Pianoforte solos: “Scherzino” (Schumann), Patricia Parsons; “Rhapsodic in G Minor” (Brahms), Janet Allen. Violoncello solo: “Serenade,” Patricia Blamires. Pianoforte solo: “Sonata in F Sharp Major,” second movement (Beethoven), Joyce Eyre. Part songs: “Hungarian Dance,” No. 5 (Brahms); “In Derry Vale,” The Londonderry Air with descant arranged by Geoffey Shaw; "Rolling Down to Rio,” words by Rudyard Kipling, music by Edward German, senior choir. A report of the drill demonstration and the prefects’ play appears on page 8.