BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS AT CENTENARY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21198, 23 June 1934, Page 7

BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS AT CENTENARY

TEST SELECTION ANNOUNCED

Advice as to the test selections for the Melbourne centenary band championship, which will be held at Ballarat on November 1, 2, and 3, has been received by the Woolston Band. The band, which will leave for Australia about the middle of October, had its first practice of these selections on Thursday evening.

The two test selections chosen for the A grade bands are difficult pieces of music. "The Severn Suite" was one of the last compositions of Sir Edward Elgar, and is his only work for brass bands. Both selections were composed for bands and are not adaptations. For A grade bands the' test pieces are "The Severn Suite" (Elgar) and "An Epic Symphony" (Percy E. Fletcher): "The Severn Suite" was the selected test for the New Zealand championship which was arranged for I Wellington in 1931, but which had to be abandoned because of the Hawke'3 Bay earthquake, so that neither teSt has been played at any championship of New Zealand. The B grade tests are "Princess Nada" (Denis Wright) and "Victory" (Cyril Jenkins), and the C grade pieces are "Mock Doctor" (Gounod) and "Coriolanus" (Cyril Jenkins). The D grade tests are "Martha" (Flotow) and "Gems of Italian Opera" (W. Rimmer). The solo pieces arranged are: Cornet, "Prelude de Concert" (Percy Code) and "Bordogni's Works" (Jacques Lafont); tenor horn, "In the Vale of Llangollen" (J. Ord Hume); baritone, "As I View These Scenes So Charming" (Jacques Lafont): euphonium, "Valse Caprice" (Percy Code); bass, "A Soliloquy" (J. Ord Hume), and "Una Voce Il'ha Colpito" (J: Ord Hume); trombone, "Phantasy" (Cyril Jenkins).