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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 287, 4 September 1928, Page 6

A little homily on lone variety was delivered lit the Auckland Competitions hy the musical judge. Mr. Keery, when dealing with the class for children involving a test piece and own selection (says the Auckland “Star”). The latter were of many dift'u nt styles, from pre-classic down to late romantic. The players had not sufficiently differentiated between the styles and the different nationalities. “The. piano used to be considered a percussion instrument,”, lie added, “but Chopin developed the singing tone. Then Dehussy introduced the subtleties of tone colour, which was a very necessary variety to modern piano work, otherwise there was. a weakness ir performance.” Commenting on vocal items at another sessi. n, Mr. Keery observed with a smile that it was unwise to assume that a judge knew only one language. That had cost some of the competitors a loss of points.