MUSICAL FESTIVAL

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 256, 25 July 1930, Page 5

MUSICAL FESTIVAL

Children’s Important Part Three of the concerts to be given during Musical Festival Week (August 3 to August 9) will be provided almost entirely by school, children, and they will afford Ihe public a display of the extent and efficiency of modern teaching of music in

the schools. It is very different to-day from what it was When classes were merely drilled In the “tonic sol-fa,” and when ineffective singing was the reward of often painful exertions by unmusical teachers. Those who go to the children's concerts will bear not only choral singing, but also .striking orchestral performances and other instrumental items. The concerts have been organised and directed by Mr. IS. Douglas Taylor, supervisor of school music. On Monday afternoon, August 4, a concert will be given by pupils from Wellington College, Kongbtal Boys’ College, the Guilford Terrace Convent School, St. Mark's School, and ■Wellington East Girls’ College. On Thursday afternoon a concert will be given by pupils from St. Mary’s Convent . School, Marsden School, Hutt Valley High School. Chilton House, and Wellington Girls’ College. Both these concerts will begin at 3 p.m. and eui) about 4.30. They will consist of choruses, piano solos and duets, ’ violin and ’cello solos, flute and clarinet items, and instru.-’ mental quartets.' On Friday night at 7 p.m. the schools will make their big effort. A combined choir of 500 voices, from primary, secondary, and private schools, will sing choruses, and will be assisted by the combined orchestras; the Rongotai Boys’ College, the Hutt Valley High School, Wellington College, Wellington Technical College, and St. Patrick’s College. The soloists will be Mrs. E. Douglas Tayler, Mr. Harlson Cook, and Mr. Claude Tanner (’cello). A specially interesting feature of the concert will be the singing, by Mrs. Tayler. of a number of songs composed by Now Zealand school children.