MUSIC FESTIVAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1945, Page 3

MUSIC FESTIVAL

PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN 2500 VOICES TO, BE HEARD An interesting feature of the annual music festival to be given in the Town Hall on the afternoon of November 6 by the primary schools of Auckland will be the playing of the accompaniments by the National Broadcasting Service's String Orchestra, which will come from Wellington for the occasion. The orchestra will also play special items to the children. Forty-six schools are busily rehearsing for the festival, which will be held tinder the auspices of the Auckland Headmasters' Association, and some 2500 Voices will be heard in the massed items. The programme will include unison and part-songs, and, in addition, individual items will be given by the Te Papapa public and Balmoral intermediate schools. The bodv of the hall and the back galleries will be occupied by a choir of approximately 2000 boys and girls, under the conductorship of Professor H. Hollinrake, while the choir seats will be filled by a select choir of 500 voices, conducted by Mr. H- C. Luscombe. The proceedings will be truly "festival" in character, for the children will be both performers and audience in that the choir on the platform will entertain those in the body of the hall and viceversa. Owing to the great number of performers taking part there will not be much room for non-participants. However, in order that the children in the primary schools not talcing part in the concert may be enabled to hear their schoolmates, a broadcast of the performance will be made.