MUSIC AND DRAMA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1941, Page 6

MUSIC AND DRAMA

SOLWAY COLLEGE CONCERT. INTERESTING AND VARIED PROGRAMME. The end of the year functions of Solway College were continued last evening when the annual conceit of music and drama was presented. It was an interesting and varied programme of pianoforte and orchestral items, and choir-singing, concluding with an excellent production of a oneact drama, “The Mirror to Elizabeth.” The orchestral and pianoforte items were delightful, some of the. work being outstanding, while the singing of the choirs was most enjoyable. The following was the programme: Orchestra, “War March of the Priests” (Mendelssohn), “Unfinished Symphony” (Schubert), Ist violins, Romola Thomson, Nancy Peed; 2nd violins, Evelyn Bodkin, Nola Barber, Heather Macdonald, Lyra Christian; violoncellos, Diana Coleman, Glenys Rowlands; accompanist, Shirley Blomfield; pianoforte solos, “A Sailor Tune” (Herbert Howells), Alison Cameron; “Norwegian Dance” (John Thompson), Frances Ayling; “Peter Squirrel” (Thomas Dunhill), Noeline Esau; “Rain on the Roof” (Norman O’Niell), Heather Macdonald; “Humoreske” (Swinstead), Joy McCaskey; songs from “lolanthe,” choir; pianoforte solos, “Valse Capricieuse” (Frank Bridge), Beth Shannon; “Scherzo” (Schubert), Janet Wilks; “Rondo C Minor Sonata” (Beethoven), Molly Courtney; violoncello solo, “Le Plaisir” (W. H. Squire), Diana Coleman; pianoforte solos, “Ist Movement Sonata Op. 2, No. 1” (Beethoven), Erica Poulgrain; “Waltz in A Flat” (Chopin), Irene Christian; “Impromptu in E Flat” (Schubert), Rhoda Bradley; part songs, “The Blossom of the Year” (Old English), and “Spring” (C. Armstrong Gibbs), Third Form and junior school singing class; pianoforte solos, “La Fileuse” (Raff), Thule Moffatt; “Arabeske” (Schumann), Joy Craine; “Arietta” (Leonardo Leo), Fay Ward; ‘Romance” (Schumann), Shirley Blomfield; part songs, “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring” (Bach), choir; “Piper’s Song” (Rutland Boughton); “Little Jack Horner” (Michael Diack with apologies to Handel); one-act play, "The Mirror to Elizabeth” (T, B. Morris),