THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Hamilton Music Students The Hamilton Music Students’ Association will close a very successful season on Monday night. The programme will illustrate dance forms and sonatas. The singers will contribute folk songs. Huntly to Help Patriotic Funds A very attractive programme, to which several .Hamilton performers will contribute, will be given at Huntly next Thursday night on behalf of the patriotic funds. The Huntly Orchestral Society of 35 players will give several items, and the rest of the programme will be very varied. Recital Helps London Distress Fund As a result of a collection taken at the recital given in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, on Sunday night, by Mrs Hedy Biland, violinist, and Mr Stanley Jackson, organist, £3 4s has been added to the fund for the relief

of distress in London. The recital was very enjoyable. Mrs Biland and Mr Jackson are gifted musicians, and their association in a Bach programme was a great success. The items included the Concerto No. 1, Air for the G String, the Chorale Prelude “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” three movements for violin from Suite No. 5, the Chorale Prelude “In Thee is Gladness,” the Concerto No. 2, and the Fugue in E-flat Major. Famous Pianist in New Zealand Ignaz Friedman, the Polish pianist, and his wife, who is a niece of the famous Russian author Tolstoy, were among the guests of honour at the Travel Club reception in Wellington this week. Mr Friedman will give recitals in each of the four centres, commencing in Wellington next Thursday, on behalf of the New Zealand patriotic funds. Ex-Hamiltonian in Wellington Vivienne Blamires, formerly of Hamilton, who studied in London for some years, has formed an instrumental trio, which is playing at a Wellington restaurant. This week the trio played the Valse de Fleurs (Tschaikowsky), Schubert’s “ Serenade,” and other items. Miss Blamires played as violin solos Brahms’ Hungarian Dance and “ Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen ” (arranged by Kriesler), and sang “ For England ” and “ Speak to Me of Love.” The 'cellist, Marie Vanderwart. played Paderewski's Minuet. “Hiawatha” in Wellington Tonight the Royal Wellington Choral Union will sing •'Hiawatha.” Coleridge Taylor’s melodious work, under the baton of Mr Stanley OliThe soloists will be:- -Minnehaha. Chrissie Barton; Hiawatha. Ernest . Short; Chibiabos, Harold Prescott.