"GREAT ACHIEVEMENT"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 271, 15 November 1943, Page 2

"GREAT ACHIEVEMENT"

SCHOOL MUSICAL EXPERIMENT

Describing It as the most successful educational experiment of its kind B a + . he ,h a d encountered, the director of the Wellington Technical College, Mi. R. G. Ridhng, gave the board of governors pi the college details of the remarkable musical advances £!?n e at^ he *V- ng Ed ward Technical College, Dunedin. "I came away from the school amazed and humbled by the power that is born and developed in successions of students," he said. "Out of Dunedin has come this one great achievement which will influence musical development in all other such schools."

On two mornings he attended the college assembly, he said, and each day until the arrival of the princinal the full band of the college pSed During and after the customary prayers the students sang, not in the desultory way that was common in adolescents, but in full voice and with evident enjoyment, hymns in unison, and with descants, songs harmonised an four and six parts, and all with clear articulation and an appreciation of musical beauty that astonished and delighted him In addition there was an orchestra with up to performers.