4780-6 INFORMATION THE BRITISH MR. R. ROSE, A.R.C.O. OF YORK (Formerly the York Centre of the British Music Society) THIRTY-FIRST SEASON, 1951-1952 DOC MUSIC SOCIETY BAS YORK President: LADÝ DAWSON Vice-Presidents: MRS. ALLEN MISS IRENE ANTHONY, L.R.A.M. MRS. H. E. BLOOR MRS. G. BOWMER MR. ALFRED GRAY SIR BENJAMIN DAWSON, BART. Committee: Chairman: Mr. WALTER G. BIRCH Vice-Chairman: MR. H. H. DRYLAND, M.B.E. MISS O. CASS, A.R.C.M., L.R.A.M. MISS GLADYS COBB, L.R.A.M. MR. W. H. C. COBB MRS. DRYLAND, J.P. MAJOR R. F. QUIRKE, F.R.I.C.S. DR. H. ROYLE THE REV. P. J. SHAW, M.A. MR. F. WAINE, M.A., B.Mus. (Oxon.) Hon. Treasurer: MR. R. WILSON SHARP, M.C., 7 Grosvenor Terrace, York Assistant Hon. Treasurer: MR. H. B. CRABTREE, 3 Trentholme Drive, The Mount, York Hon. Secretary: MR. R. A. GRAY, B.Sc., 27 St. Mary's, York, Tel. 3084 Assistant Hon. Secretary: MISS K. GRAY Hon. Auditor: MR. WM. GREEN KINDLY BRING THIS SYLLABUS TO THE NOTICE OF YOUR FRIENDS Further copies may be obtained from the Assistant Hon. Treasurer, and from Mr. Frederic Veal, 5в Stonegate, York

SYLLABUS, 1951-1952 1. THURSDAY EVENING, 4th OCTOBER, 1951, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). CHAMBER CONCERT by THE PETER GIBBS STRING QUARTET PETER GIBBS, Violin KELLY ISAACS, Violin PATRICK IRELAND, Viola BRUNO SCHRECKER, 'Cello PETER GIBBS won a scholarship to the Trinity College of Music at the age of twelve and, just prior to the war, he won a scholarship to Oxford where he was reading for a Modern Languages degree. At the outbreak of war he joined the R.A.F. and served as a fighter pilot on the South of England, and North Africa. He took part in the defence of London against the flying bombs and went through the Second Front with No. 41 Fighter Squadron. In 1945 PETER GIBBS was invalided out of the Air Force after baling out over Germany and returned to Oxford to read for his B.Mus. degree Subsequently he met Patrick Ireland and formed the Gibbs String Quartet. KELLY ISAACS studied the violin from the age of nine and in 1939 won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, London. Unfortunately the war intervened and he was unable to take it up. Prior to the war KELLY ISAACS was studying for his B.Sc. at Rangoon University and when the Japanese approached Rangoon he evacuated to India where he led the Orchestra of the Maharajah of Patiala. He came to Britain in 1946 to take up his scholarship after an interval of seven years. PATRICK IRELAND was educated at Wellington College, and Worcester College, Oxford, and was studying at the Royal College of Music at the outbreak of the war. He joined the R.A.F. Coastal Command and served as a pilot flying Liberator bombers chasing submarines in the Atlantic. After the war PATRICK IRELAND returned to Oxford to study for his B.Mus. degree. BRUNO SCHRECKER was born at Frankfurt in Germany and came to England in 1933. He won a Scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied under Ivor James. He has since studied with Piet Lentz in Amsterdam. 7. re u 8. th

7. THURSDAY EVENING, 21st FEBRUARY, 1952, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). RECITAL by BRUCE BOYCE Baritone Accompanied by DAVID MONEY BRUCE BOYCE was born in Ontario, Canada, and decided on a singing career while studying at Cornell University. While still a student he was invited by Mrs. Roosevelt to give a concert at the White House. In 1934 he was awarded a music scholarship for study abroad. He came to England where he joined the Oriana Madrigal Society and the Bach Cantata Club. He studied with Reinhold von Warlich and became a lieder enthusiast, spending part of each year in Salzburg, Paris and Munich. In 1936 he made his debut in concerts in London, giving his first recital at the Grotrian Hall, and he sang in Verdi's Requiem at the Lewes Festival. The following year he took part in the St. Matthew Passion at The Queen's Hall with the Bach Choir. BRUCE BOYCE made his American concert debut at the New York Town Hall in 1938, returning to England to sing at the Three Choirs' Festival and to give further recitals in London. He sang the title role in Tschaikowsky's opera "Eugene Onegin" at Carnegie Hall, New York, and became soloist in a well-known New York church. Then his career was interrupted by war service and he was twice decorated by the American Army. On demobilisation in 1946, he resumed his studies with Dino Borgioli. After two recitals at the Wigmore Hall he joined the New London Opera Com- pany, and in May, 1947, he sang Monterone in "Rigoletto" at the Cambridge Theatre. During the season 1947-1948 BRUCE BOYCE appeared as Marcel in "La Boheme" and played forty performances of the title role in "Don Giovanni", singing with such artists as Ljuba Welitsch, Marguerita Grandi and Italo Tajo. In October, 1949, he sang in the London Opera Club's production of Cimarosa's "Secret Marriage". Recently he has made a tour of Scotland and appeared regularly in B.B.C. broadcasts, including the first performances of modern works under Ernest Ansermet, Nadia Boulanger, Sir Adrian Boult and Anthony Bernard. 8. THURSDAY EVENING, 13th MARCH, 1952, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). RECITAL ON TWO PIANOFORTES by CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS SELLICK CYRIL SMITH was born in Middlesbrough, Yorks., in 1909. He showed an interest in the piano from a very early age, and took first place in an open competition at a local Eisteddfod when 12 years old. At 16, he won an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music, and studied there for some years under Herbert Fryer, later on becoming a professor at the College himself. PHYLLIS SELLICK was born in Newbury Park, Essex, in 1911. She started to play by ear at the age of three, and had her first piano lesson on her fifth birth- day. At 14, she won an open scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied under the late Cuthbert Whitemore, and later won a further scholar- ship to study under the famous French teacher, Isidor Philipp, in Paris. In 1937, CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS SELLICK were married, and since then have become almost as well known as two-piano duettists as they are singly on the concert platform. Sir Henry Wood helped Cyril very largely in his career, and it was he who first suggested that they should try their hand as a two-piano team. They actually played together for the first time under Sir Henry's baton on the first of the Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall (wartime home of the Proms.).

2. THURSDAY EVENING, 25th OCTOBER, 1951, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). PIANOFORTE RECITAL by YVONNE LEFEBURE When YVONNE LEFEBURE, at the age of nine, gave her first concert, her playing aroused considerable interest: her qualities of interpretation and musician- ship surprised everyone and the Prize for Infant Prodigies was awarded to her. But instead of embarking on the easy career which opened before her she chose to pursue her musical studies. In a very few years she carried off the complete series of Diplomas and Distinc- tions which it is in the power of the Conservatoire de Paris to bestow. At the same time she initiated herself into French Music of the present day under the supervision of the representatives of that School. It was to the young First Prizewinner, as she was then, that Faure liked to entrust his later works, Variations, Nocturnes and Chamber Music. Later she was to become the favourite interpreter of Paul Dukas, whose Variations on a Theme of Rameau she has recorded, and of Ravel to whom she revealed one day when she was playing his Jeux d'Eau, certain manners of pianistic realisation which were exactly as the composer had intended certain passages. Since then, YVONNE LEFEBURE, interpreter of all the fine classics, romantics and moderns, has toured all Europe. She has played in Amsterdam under the direction of Meugelberg, in Berlin with the Philharmonic Orchestra. Athens asked for her co-operation in a Festival given in honour of the return of King George. London acclaimed her interpretation of the Ravel Concerto which she played in that City with the Colonne Orchestra of Paris under the baton of Paul Peray. Salzburg invited her to take part in Mozart Festival, conducted by Bruno Walter. Her annual tours have taken her to Belgium, England, Holland, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. In between times YVONNE LEFEBURE has advised numerous young French and foreign virtuosi who have come from the four corners of the earth to attend her classes at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and classes of interpretations given alternately for several years by Cortot and YVONNE LEFEBURE. 3. THURSDAY EVENING, 15th NOVEMBER, 1951, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). RECITAL by JAMES JOHNSTON Tenor Accompanied by ALBERT KNOWLES JAMES JOHNSTON joined the Sadlers Wells Opera Company in 1944. Since then he has established himself as one of the finest tenors of our day. In 1949 he became principal tenor at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he scored a marked success in the "Olympians" by Arthur Bliss. His continued successes have brought him attractive offers to sing abroad. His many broadcasts have made him an outstanding radio artist, and he sang Rudolph (Boheme) in the first full length opera to be televised. He is recording exclusively for Columbia, and he has the distinction of selling more records in the U.S.A. than any other Columbia artist.

4. THURSDAY EVENING, 6th DECEMBER, 1951, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). RECITAL by ENA MITCHELL Soprano Accompanied by MICHAEL MULLINAR ENA MITCHELL is well known throughout the country as a singer of great charm and accomplishment. She broadcasts frequently for the B.B.C. in the Home and Third Programmes, and has appeared in many of the major Choral Works at the Royal Albert Hall and the new Festival Hall in London, the Edinburgh Festival, Leeds Triennial and at the Three Choirs' Festivals, and the leading Choral Societies throughout the country. The consistently high standard of ENA MITCHELL'S singing has rightly established her as one of England's leading sopranos. 5. THURSDAY EVENING, 10th JANUARY, 1952, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). PIANOFORTE RECITAL by WEINGARTEN JOSEPH WEINGARTEN, although now a British subject, was born in Budapest. He showed such remarkable talent at the piano even at the tender age of three years, that there was never any doubt as to his future career. At the Royal Franz Liszt Academy he was the pupil of such famous Hungarian musicians as Zoltán Kodály, Leo Weiner and Ernst von Dohnányi, and between the years 1933 and World War II, he achieved outstanding success in many international competitions, as a result of highly sensitive musical interpretations and great virtuosity. Since the conclusion of the Second World War, he has enhanced his reputation by concert appearances in the U.S.A., Belgium, Holland, Hungary, Italy, etc. Concertos and other works with Orchestras form a large part of his extensive repertoire and he has been soloist with-among many others-in Great Britain and abroad-the B.B.C. Symphony, the B.B.C. Scottish, City of Birmingham, the Hallé, the Liverpool Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, etc. 6. THURSDAY EVENING, 31st JANUARY, 1952, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). RECITAL by Violoncello Pianoforte EILEEN CROXFORD is recognised by musicians and critics as an outstanding artist, and one of the finest players of her instrument in England. EILEEN CROXFORD PEGGY GRAY - She commenced her musical studies with her parents, at the age of five, and at twelve won a Scholarship. Later, she moved on under the auspices of the Royal College of Music, to the well-known teacher Ivor James. On her return from a period of lessons with Pablo Casals, EILEEN CROXFORD made her debut at the Wigmore Hall, London. PEGGY GRAY was a Scholar and Gold Medalist at the Royal College of Music where she studied for four years under Kendall Taylor. She has had a wide and comprehensive experience of chamber music and accompanying in music clubs throughout the country and in London. She has given joint recitals with many of the leading soloists, including Alan Loveday.

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