SCHOOL OF MUSIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 282, 28 November 1929, Page 11

SCHOOL OF MUSIC.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. HALF-YEARLY EXAMINATIONS. SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. Performers in the half-yearly examinations of the School of Music of the Auckland University College (which started on Saturday and finished yesterday), were not quite up to the usual standard in the technical parts, according to the judges, Dr. S. Kenneth Phillips and Professor W. E. Thomas. Scales and arpeggios were not so carefully attended to in the higher grades. In both the junior and the primary grades, there were some outstanding performances in the pieces. In the senior grade, while none of the work was bad, there were no candidates who reached any degree of excellence in the playing. Honours would have been very welcome.

Some of the candidates for the associate pianoforte thought that the arpeggios did not go further than the common chords, whereas the syllabus expressly stated all arpeggios, and that would certainly include dominant and diminished sevenths. Reading at sight was the weakest work in senior and intermediate grades. In the analysis of the pieces performed, several candidates had learned the matter by heart. It would have been much more acceptable if the candidates had put their knowledge in their own words. The list of successful candidates is as follows:— ASSOCIATE (PIANO). Maximum 100; pass 75. In Order of Merit.—Myrtle Hawthorne, Margaret Trendall, Mary Johnston. SENIOR GRADE. Maximum 100, honours 85-100, first-class 75-84; pass 65-74. Piano: Joan M. L. De Carteret, firstclass, 75; Freda Cook, first-class, 75; Norman Dawe, pass, 73; Lilla Harrison, pass, 73; Barbara Williamson, pass, 72. INTERMEDIATE GRADE. Maximum 100, honours 85 to 100, first-

class 75-84, pass 65-74. Clarinet: Arnold Joseph Mackie, firstclass, 81. Elocution: Margaret Hawthorne, first-class, 80. Piano: Nancy Williamson, first-class, 75; Constance Jolly, first-class, 75; Agnes McKay, pass, 71; William A. R. Sainsbury, pass, 71; Jean Dobell, pass, 69; William Raeburn Greene, pass, 66. JUNIOR GRADE. Maximum 100, honours 85 to 100, firstclass 75-84, pass 65-74. Piano: Joyce Halstead, honours, 86; Colin Henry Dawson, first-class, 80; Alfred Brinkman, first-class, 76; Edna C. Handford, first-class, 75; Zoe Watkins, pass, 74; Joyce Harkness, pass, 72; Enid Kearney, pass 70; Thelma Teague, pass, 70; Elsie Eleanor Hawkes, pass, 69; Kathleen Mary Judd, pass, 68; Lilian Turner, pass, 68; Ellen Cheyne, pass, 65. PRIMARY GRADE. Maximum 100, honours 85 to 100, firstclass 75-84, pass 65-74.

Piano: Dorothy Lewis, honours, 85; Joyce Halstead, first-class, 84; Barbara Storey, first-class, 84; David Charles Cooke, first-class, 80; Kenneth Wade, first-class, 78; Bernard Harris, first-class, 78; Ruby Margaret McCready, pass, 74; Mollie McGovern, pass, 74; Grace Wilson, pass, 73; Dorothy Leslie, pass, 71.

THEORETICAL MUSIC,

The following candidates satisfied the examiner in theoretical music:—

Certified Teacher; maximum 100, pass 75; Eileen Landon.

Senior Grade; maximum 100, honours 85, first-class 75 to 84, pass 65 to 74: Catherine Wright, first-class, 75; Molly Prendergast, pass, 65. Intermediate Grade; maximum 100, honours 85, first-class 75 to 84, pass 65 to 74: Jean Fogerty, honours, 86; Molly Lincoln,, first-class, 84; Ailsa Homan, first-class 82; Elizabeth Lunn, first-class, 80; Margaret Rennie, pass, 73; Joan Baker, pass, 65.