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DUDLEY STURROCK
Directed by P. MS LEAN ROGERS Director of Productions HERBERT WILCOX
HARRY ORE'S PUPILS' CONCERT
Good Piano Work Last Night
Harry Ore's, plano pupils' con corts used to be an annual event. Then he leit us for two years but fortunately, he (18) with us once again, and yesterday's concert at the Helena May, Institute proved that ho is developing some very promising talent Among the Chinese.
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Str,-It is a malter of much concern to the Executive Com- mittee that our appeal for Volunteer Helpers and $3,000 which will be required for this winter's work has, so fur, mot with A little response.
original shelter at the former St. Peter's Church, West Point, opens on December 181 and the work will be carried out on similar lines to last year. It may be of interest to note that from December 1st last year to 14th April of this year. 16,372 people were registered, who would otherwise have had to sleep in the streets. Copies of report of last year's work are available and may bu had at Menara. Kelly and Walsh and the Colonial Dis pensary.
It is a melancholy fact that there are scarcely any budding planists among the British community horo, Out of ten persormera on yeater day's programme, une was Frnech and nine were Chineset Young China is rapidly developing
appre ciation of western classical music, but so far most of its interest is centred on the piane. Except In the many cases where the execu. tants' handa are too amall for really efficient piano work, there is evidence of a marked adapt In addition, through the kind- ability to the instrument, their neas of the Directors of the Tung hugera being particulary ilexiute Wah Hospital, we have this and their touch sensitive. Some winter been able to runt J 3- reveal true musical understanding storeyed house off Po Yan Street and musicianship.
which we hope w accommodate | 144 persons, and which we anti-; cipate will be opened about the middle of December.
At yesterday's concert we had the opportunity of hearing a young Chinese male pinnist, quite an un- usual event in Hongkong. This was Mr. Clement, Leong, whose musical and yirie rendering of the first movement of a Beethoven Sonato showod remarkable prome. He had the strength and larger hands which place him at nn advantage over the young taules, neory all of whom have this obstacle to overcome,
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it will thus be seen that we shall need considerably more helpers as well as more funds to equip and organize the two shelters, and we, as a Committee, do appeal most strongly to public for support, if we are to continue with thla work,
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Volunteer helpers English or Chinese
are needed. men especially, Enrolment forms may be had on application to Miss College, Lyttleton Road, Tel. 21551 Atkins, St. Stephen's Girls'
Mina Taoh Kit-ngaan gave effective and musicianly perform ance of Liszt's Liebestraum and a Bach Fugue; the former being or to any of the places mentioned Donations may played from memory. Miss Ethel on the posters. Banker, too, showed musical under-Banker & Co. Ltd. 4 Queen's Road, sent to Mr. Li 'Hol-tung, c/o standing in a Chopin Polonaise.
Miss Ma Si-cung la of stronger Central or to Mr. R. Ashton Hill, build and is technically very pro- c/o H.K. University.
N. V. HALVARD. Acient already; in time she will be
a very good playor. Miss Bella a CHAIRMAN, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
is a sister of Daisy Ma (now Mrs.
Yuen), who is the most musical
Chinese girl Mr. Ore has numbered and under the circumstances one amongst his puplis. She used to or two slight lapses of memory! be a regular performer at his were quite understandable, concorts and they seem to be in- Towards the close of the recital, completo Without hor. Her Mr. Conrado de la Cruz (violinist) brilliant rendering of younger alatoris. less musically gave a developed but ahqwa prontise and Vieuxtemps' Ballade and Polonaise. there is no folson at all why she The piano solos were relievod should not take Daisy Ma's place by four part songs rendered by one day as a "star" pupil.
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ed by Harry Ore. The men's acrobatic fenta with dazzling) Another cultured Chinese girl voices were quite good, but the effect in Liszt's Twelfth Hungarian pianist was Miss Mary Hau, who sopranos were not always quite in Rhapsody. But it was not all) jreviously studied at the Shanghai | tune. All their songs were enjoy-heavy stuff. Harry Ore can play The following ships are expect- Conservatoire... Her playing of able, particularly a Swedish Wedd-extramely delicately when theed to be in wireless cómmunica- The Lark by Glinka-Balakireff was ing March by Soedermann and an music calls for it. As was once tion with Hongkong to-day:—— a beautiful piece of work. Miss Old German Folksong by Vogel, said of Egan Petri in a critique: Duisburg, Anking, Haiyank Lee Chi-yin also played two pieces| Finally, Harry Ore proceeded to "He can play as delicately as a Katori Maru, Carthage, Fres. by Beethoven and Mendelssohn show Young China how the plant cat walks on velvet or thunder McKinley, Tanda, Anhui, Chung- vory eroditably. The Misses V. can be played if the pianist is with the hammer of Thor' Mr.king. Achillon, Kwangtung, Tango and I, Lam, in a piano duet, over-endowed
with the necessary Ore did both last night, and the Maru, Tokiwa Maru, Tilawa, came all the technical difficulties physique as well as #t fucnt plano stood up to it very well.. Talming, Hydrangea, Hongpeng in spite of their tiny hands and technique. He performed amazing]
Glenshiel. showed a marked sense of rhythm and very clean playing..
Lust, but not least, Madame Evelie gave a very musical and quite faultless rendering ΟΙ 1 Chopin Study, followed by
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Debussy's Jardma sute la Pinic, TOMORROW wh.ch demands coualderable Auency of technique and plenty of atmosphere. She played them
both from memory.
Mr. Ore regards his pupils' con- certs as a "public practice," to give his young planists an oppor tunity for overcoming stage fright,
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