WBHS_School_Magazine_1966 LR 01

This was the Society's 23rd Annual Season,
when Mr. Peacock undertook to produce the
Annual High School play.
First Function, 18th June
The Hall was well filled on tilis occasion when
a programme, presented entirely by the school,
was given. First, the School Orchestra and soloists
gave us the Triumph Dance from Purcell's "Dido
and Aeneas", the first movement from Mozart's
"Adelaide" Concerto for Violin and Orchestrasoloist
Neville Pasvolsky, the Keltic Lament by
Foulds, and a Smetana Polka.
There followed two one-act plays. The first
of these was "The Seventeenth Highwayman", by
Eric Forbes-Boyd, with Norman Coates as Producer,
and a cast including S. Friedlander, P.
Shelton, D. Jupp, M. Stein, P. Dowling and P.
Furman. The plot, concerning an attempt to rob
the Marquis of Tottenham, was well sustained,
and the surprises of bogus characters surprising
us as they should.
The second play, "The Boatswain's Mate," by
W. W. Jacobs, contained only three characters,
taken by H. Bosman, D. Gohl and H. Gohl, with
producer T. Kyriacos. The spirit of this play was
similar to that in the previous one, and it went
quite well.
out. .
J. du Plessis stage-managed through-
At the conclusion, coffee was served, after a '
.pleasant evening's entertainment.
Second Function, 4th, 5th and 6th August
High School play, "Court Martial".
Third Function, 19th and 20th August
The "Twelfth Annual Hour of Music," by the
School Orchestra, soloists, and Junior Choir in
conjunction with the choir of Notre Dame Convent
took place in the School Hall on August 19th
and 20th. The programme on this occasion was
possibly the most ambitious and best balanced
that we have given. The Orchestra, seated this
year in a large semicircle, opened the programme
with the Overture and Triumphing Dance from
Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas". The slow
section of the overture drew forth some pleasing
legato playing, while the ensuing quick section
kept a good rhythm, as did the Dance.
Arnon Hurwitz and Mr. A. Lorie then gave us
the first movement of a Mozart Sonata for Violin
and Piano, lively and rhytilrnical. Malcolm Bates
then gave a clean and very competent reading of
the solo part in a Vivaldi Concerto for Cello and
Orchestra, an item that was particularly enjoyable.
Next came Mozart's "Adelaide" Concerto for
Violin and Orchestra, in which the soloist was
Neville Pasvolsky. This is a very beautiful work,
interesting throughout, but dependent upon a
performance with good style and pleasing tone,
and these qualities were evident throughout in
Neville's playing.
The combined choirs, lOO girls and boys, then
assembled to sing us five delightful songs with
piano accompaniment, played, impeccably as
usual, by their director, Mrs. Elsie Jennings. The
songs were "Spring Wind" by Thiman, "Who is
Sylvia?" in the setting by Coates, "The Owl and
the Pussycat" by Rely Hutchinson, the evergreen
"No John" and "Sing, Joyous Bird" by Phillips.
The singing was delightful. and obviously enjoyed
by choir and audience alike.
There followed Haydn's Concertino in C for
Piano and Orchestra, in which the soloist was
Michael Herbert, who gave a thoughtful and controlled
reading of the solo part, for which he
deserves great credit.
The Choir then returned to the platform to
combine with the Orchestra in the singing of
three of the ten Biblical songs, based upon Psalms,
and set to music by Dvorak. First came "Songs
of Gladness", second "Hear, Oh Lord, My Bitter
Cry" and lastly "Oh Sing Unto the Lord a Joyful
Song".
This item created a big impression upon all
present, and set in motion the immediate preparation
of a fourth song in the series, during the
ensuing week. The songs are very beautiful, and
the final one was repeated by general request.
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