PRESENTATION.
In the artists' room of the Town Hall on Saturday evening, after the Kreisler concert, the Ada Crossley gold medal and two elegantly bound volumes of "The Welltempered Clavichord," by Johann Sebastian Bach, were presented to Miss Catherine Wallace and Miss Alma McGruer, L.A.8., respectively, by Mr. Franz Kreisler on behalf of the famous contralto. This competition was held in September last, Dr. T. Haigh, examiner of the Associated' Board of the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music, being the adjudicator. There were four "other candidates. The works performed' were Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Furnie Beethoven's C sharp minor .Sonata] Chopin's Valscs X minor and G flat major, and Nicode's Tarantclle, besides 6cales and arpeggios in every way aural tests and sight reading. Tlie violinist spoke very kindly, and urged the young musicians to be always thorough and industrious, and push on and secure further distinction in music and said that it was a great honour to have such gilts from so great a singer and artist. c
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 133, 8 June 1925, Page 11
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172PRESENTATION. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 133, 8 June 1925, Page 11
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