ORIGINAL SONGS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1943, Page 4

ORIGINAL SONGS

AUCKLAND C©M»^ T ITV;SisSgp:CJ AGAIN \ bright and worthwhile new venture was inaugurated in the Auckland Town-Hall to : day, when three sonss written and set to music by Vew Zealanders were presented. The songs are being entered in a content to- encourage Dominion song writers and each Friday three numbers-will be presented during community singing, to be held in future in His Majesty's Tneatre. An enthusiastic crowd gathered in the lunch hour to-day, among them being sick and wounded servicemen who were specially invited, also other members of the forces, and Americans. They hailed the return of community singing to Auckland, after an interval of four years, with evident pleasure. The organisers were MrT Frank Broad, who conducted the singing, Mrs. Barrington Snow who was the pianist, and Mrs. E Julian, who was the vocalist. To the audience to-day they were "Slim" "Snow" and "Sue." The local songs presented were "When He Returns," by C. J. Hauxwell who sang his own number, "Hitler's Swastika." a humorous number by Mrs. L. Cumberworth, and a rousing war song "Eighth Army," by H. H Moller. of New Plymouth. The music of each was printed on the song sheets, so that the public could join in, and afterwards they slipped their votes for the best song in a box. At the end of the year, a £50 prize will be awarded the best song.