AWNW - 28th May 2014

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Issue #2304 – Wednesday, 28 May, 2014

Albury Wodonga’s largest circulating newspaper

Digging in for Headspace Border Trust has raised nearly $1000 for Albury Wodonga Headspace at the Anzac Day parade. TURN TO PAGE 6 FOR MORE. Sonya Visser and Glennis Carter perform Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16 - 1st Movt. by Edvard Grieg which was performed at the official opening of the Albury Civic Theatre in 1964.

■ Veteran musician’s half-century encore...

Memories flood back By KRYSTEN MANUEL LAST Thursday night brought with it a spectacularly vivid walk down memory lane for 76-year-old Glennis Carter. Exactly 50 years ago, Mrs Carter performed at the Albury Entertainment Centre on opening night and she took the stage once again on Thursday on the very same piano. Memory upon memory of standing ovations and the many sublime musi-

cians and singers she and her husband Jack Carter had performed with at the Albury Entertainment Centre flooded back, telling a story of a very different time for the Entertainment Centre, which was known back then as the War Memorial Civic Theatre. “I went to the Melbourne University Conservatorium and moved to Albury as a music teacher,” Mrs Carter recounts.“I taught for quite a few years

and then I married Jack Carter who was the town clerk of the day. “He was a very fine musician. He was a pianist and an organist at St David’s Church for many years. We played two pianos and eventually appeared in shows like Bobby Limb’s Sound of Music, we were regulars on In Melbourne Tonight, we appeared on the Graham Kennedy Show, the Philip Brady Show, and we were also finalists in Showcase.

all of those shows we trialled in Albury from the Civic Theatre. “The crowds were a little different from what they are today because everybody dressed up in those days. “The ladies wore furs, you always had your fur you put over your frock, the hair was always done and there were mayoral balls at the Town Hall the other building across the way from the Civic Theatre. Continued on page 2

“We cut a couple of LP records for WNG Records because of the success of the television performances and they were very well received. “It was a wonderful time. In the evenings, after Jack finished work, we’d fly down there (Melbourne), go straight to Channel 9 for IMT rehearsal with the band, do the show, stay at the Menzies Hotel and come back on the first flight back in the morning. “All those pieces we performed for

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