She Had Six Interesting Pupils To Play

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 27, 16 December 1938, Page 5

She Had Six Interesting Pupils To Play

PIANO teacher of the good old days, asked how he endured his job, said it had its compensations, because there was always "the interesting pupil." Miss Valerie Corliss (well-known in Wellington musical circles) seems to attract numerous interesting pupils, and her presentation of half a dozen of these in the Town Hail Concert Chamber on Monday, December 5, introduced a group of musicians of singularly marked ability. Those playing at this recital were Isa Anderson, Kate Jourdain, Dorothy La Roche, Lionel Harris, Arthur Fieldhouse, and Bryan McMillan, all of whom would have done credit. to royal music schools of London. Besides: numerous brilliant solo items, a feature of the concert was the two-pianoforte work, six examples being given to a delighted audience. it seems almost a pity that in a programme .of about 40 numbers, the names of Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt and Grieg were missing, and that the majority of pieces played were short (though far from trivial or easy). Perhaps in these days of quick lunches we have grown used to going without a good slice off the joint. It was, at any rate, a night out for the "moderns," much of whose delightful work was new to most of those. present. And Bach and others among the "ancients" were by no means forgotten.