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MUSICAL NOTES:

THE HELENA MAY CONCERTS:

WHAT THEY ARE ATTRAC

TIONS AND DISTRACTIONS

THURSDAY'S CONCERT.

ABY ALLEGRO.J

The Winter seasoa of fortnightly concerts at the Holena May Insti tato opens on Thursday. For the bencat of newcomers to the Co- lony, it may be stated, that these concerts have for years past bo come an established feature of the musical life hore-such as it Ten years ago the Musicales, as they were then called, were, far more amateurish affairs than they have become in cont sousons; the programmes › were chosen with Jess

and sometimes au insignific ant number of people attended, even though the 50 cents charged for admission included a free, ton. Nowadays the performances Aeo. very popular, the hall often being three-quarters full,

CATO.

The Concerts.

What sort of concerts are they Well, we amateurs get up and play our last week's pio of sing our pre-war. songs, hoping thing in, view of the low admission for (50) cants without ton) and the fact. that we are in a Indfea hostel, we ahall not get too many things thrown at us. If our pieco enda with a difficult passage about which we feel in trepidation, or ur eona cubinates with a high note: on which there in a fair chance, bl cracking, we try to arrange our tine of performance so that the ending shall synchronise with the arrival or departure of Pank tran, which rattles past the open windows twice every ten minutes and for the moment drowns overy- thing else. On the whole the hal? is a good one for sound, hub the. wound comes from different quar- ters. At times the soloists com pats with a clatter of crockery not far from the back rows. but I know that strenuous efforts are made to keep the kitchen as quiet as possible during the perform

alices.

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The Old Hall.

The new concert room is, how ever, despite its drawbacks, an in- provement du the old one-on the street level-where one could hear passing motors changing gear, not twice in ten minutes, but ton times in one. The old hall had other disadvantages, too. Late.com- era rattled the door and finding it lacked passed through the Tadies sitting room to the back of the hall, which was rather annoying to the sitting ladies installed there sincs they had shut themselves off from the music (and from man kind), only to find a long proces sion of people-largely males-in truding into their apartment trin ping over their legs, and generally making a nuisance of themselves. They caused," in fact, what, you might term, Hell in a Maidens' Retreat.

COLONY'S WATER SUPPLY.

LAST MONTH'S FIGURES,

The monthly water return fssued by the Water follows

Level and storage of ynter in reservoirs on October, 1931

Reservoir. Tsitren

ISLAND WATER WORKS.

Tytam Byewash Tytam Intermediate, Tytam Tuk Wong Net Chung, Fakinra Aberdeen Upper Aberdeen Lower

1030.

Below Overlow. Level

Contents in Milions of

Coutents in

Below

Millions of

Gallons: Overflow,

Gallons,

$94.50

306.62

00.37

18.80

103.00

Level

195,90

∙1,419.00

30.33 60.00

1,419.00

20.30

440*

37.00

10.3

12.17

Lovel

30.00

12,991,00

2,118:41

Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and decimals of gallops during the month of September:

Consuraption

Estimated population

1290.

1031,

350,00* 443,380

387.11 million gallonsi 381,000

33.8 gallons

Consumption por head per day 20,2

*Includes 66.05 million gallons from Mainland.

f Includes $3.73 inillion gallons: from Mainland. September, 100-Constant supply throughout the City, Hill and High Level Districts during the whoe month with the excep tion of the districts West of Enstern Street where a constant. street fountain supply was given from September 8 to 15, 1930.

September, 1911-Constant supply throughout the City, I and High Level District during the whole mouth.

MAINLAND WATER. WORKS.

Reservoir,

Kowloon Main... 7 above overflow, 380.40

Kow our Byewash Shek Li Poi

Shing Man Reception

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Contents in Milions of Below

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33.15.

097.95

18.10

33.15

529.6%

Consumption of water in Kowloon in millions and decimals of gallons during the month of September:

Consumption.

1930.

1031.

157.73

107.040

173.53 milion gallons 290,750

..24.01.

19.0 gallons

Estimated population Consumption per head per day

Constant supply in a districts during September 1930 and 1931, The reports of the Governmal Bacteriologist and Analyst shew that the quality of the water in antisfactory.

The total rainfall recorded by the Royal Observatory from January 1, 1330 to 94.75 inches ad January 1, 1921, to 74.13 ins.

Thursday's Concert..

unspecified). The box-office lady of such a clinice. That is all very should therefore be not only well, but if people take the trouble. good mathematician, but a bit of to practise for one of these con neither. Just as she is saying Twoed to play or sing what pleases a detective, fou a rule she is certs, they at least may be allow members, one on, and children-- them without being called over let's see, forty, forty, fifty, ninety" the conls" for having deficient and preparing to give change for musical taste ten dollars, Mrs. Snodgrass will come forward and exclaim "TË in Mrs. Winkle's party. She's gone in already and there are two more going to be late-my husband and Miss Oswaldtwistlo.

Mrs. Winkle has given you, the tickets." Not only is the calculation entire Then again, the artists' room was ly upset, but Mrs. Snodgrass pos- the ladies' reading lounge. If a sibly gets in-quite inintentional pianist asked in the interval for aly-without having heen paid for. jug of warm water, towel and Therefore I say ngnin: not only soap, these were deposited on a copy of the Bystander, and one had to carry out ablutions next, to soms female who was trying to for get the concert in the pager of Whittaker's Amande, Nowadays, in the new concert hall, the artists room is a sort of Sanctum for Me- ditation, where if necessary one could even alavo in peace.

The New Hall,

for your own sake, but for the Bako" of the Peak lady selling tickets, turn

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I was turning over some old pa pera the other day and came across

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At the first Helena May concert, a 5,30 on Thursday next, the pro- gramme consists of songs by Mrs. Neil Mathieson and Mrs. Bowes- Smith, violin solos by Mr. H. L Evelie"(a French violinist who was heard in quartals at the Mozart concert), and piano solos by Miss Dniay Ma. Although we have heard. Mr. Li Chor Chi "several times at these concerts, I believe that Miss Daisy, Ma is the first a little early. Chinese young lady to appear on The baby grand piano is one of the programmica, the best in the Colony Grotrian- Steinweg. The hall itself, in spite some comments on Miss Ma's play- of its drawbacks, is the most suiting A few extracts may be of abis one available for small conWith those Chinese pianists one

interest- corts. And the audiences there has heard the general impression acom more sympathetic and friend is that they have a wonderful an- ly towards the performers than titude for acquiring digital dex- terity, but that, either through na- tural disability, or the fault of their teachers, or lack of oppor tunity of hearing, Western music, they do not possess the power of expressing emotions in their play ing. It was therefore with a feel- if the stairway Jeads direct to the

ing of intense interest that one lis stage, but a second inspection reThe services of the performers attened to the playing of Miss Daisy veals that it eventually meets the these concerts being entirely volun M a young Chinese girl, at Mr. floor of the auditorium about half tary, their efforts should not be Harry Ore's piano panils concert way down the hall

subjeuled to the same standard of last week. Mina Ma has been heard criticism as visiting professional before in less pretentious pieces artista. I believe most of them and has shown great promise: but welcome intelligent critiques, as when he played. Liszt's Night distinct from those sloppy accounts, teeming with superlatives, which we often sos in country newspapers, Criticism becomes rather irksome and unjust, however, when it takes the form adopted by the inusion correspondent of a local contempor dry about two years ago.

If I have one grouse against the new hall, not as a performer but as a member of the audience, it is that entry is only possible by means any others As mentioned recent of a gigantic staircase, by which ly, this was, the place in which we one makes a kind of triumphal recommended yourn Guller to give entry, as though descending into her recitale the ballroom at Buckingham Palace. At first glanco it seems na

Musical Uriticism,

ingala" the other day she proved to have made grent strides in that, vory direction where it seeme most difficult for a Chinese to progresA Sho has a good idea of interpre tation and a certain charm of style, and it is evident that she feels the musica

If you are Inte, it is agony to descend those stairs in full slew of half the audience-receiving scowls from all quarters."" Since you are also in full view of the singer, as often as not the latter 28 80 Anuoyed that she forgets her words. This unpleasantness can only be avoided by sitting on the top stair and sliding down surreptitously from one step to another. You are fairly well hid den from the audience by the

of her tiny hands, I wrote: "One After referring to the bandicap hannisters and with luck you can

cannot expect virility or virtuos get to the bottom in five minutes of Jeritza as his musical standard.ity from her her technical success You then take advantage of the Ho very coldom found A perform will lie in delicate fngerwork such; next Peak tram pandemonium to ance that satisfied him. Moreover, the Nightingale demands. But. alin into a neighbouring seat, te

ho had his own ideas about what her greatest suocess will lie in the Of course this is rather an un composers and pieces-should-figure development of that musical un comfortable, not to mention un on the prograrama. If a pianist derstanding which in preping oute dignifi, mode of entry, and, the played Beethoven's Moonlight Son-in her playing. best way to avoid it is to turnat, ho chafed and fumed because. Those comments

This gentleman case to these con- corts with the playing of Heilta and Paderewski, and the singing

ere made five.

For some reason, the following.

up a little early. As it is, so it wasn't the Pastornie. If the years ago, many people flock round the played Debussy, ho, wanted Bach. 'ticket-office nt, 5.30; that the If she played a concerto, with the committee lady-in-charge is also orchestral part on a second piano, Jutely betwitted in her efforta toho said that in the absence of anffortnightly concert at the Helena! give change. The admission charge orchestra aho ought not to have May will take place three weeks 16 cents for non-memberg flayed it at all. If anyone gave later on Novr thand, for some cents for members, and 30 cents for an arrangement of anything the other reason, it will not be a'con Servicemen and children (age limiteritic lectured her on the sacrilege cart, but a Chinese play..

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