MUSIC EXAMINER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 3

MUSIC EXAMINER.

Mr. Douglas Redman, L.R.A.M., who is due in New Zealand next month, to conduct practical examinations on behalf of the Associated Board of the P..A.M. and S.C.M., London, began hk musicpf career in 1873 as a chorister at Her late Majesty's private chapel at Windsor. Pour years later he became a chorister at Clare College, Cambridge, remaining tfiere until 1880, when he entered the Royal Academy of Music as a pupil of the kte Sir George A. Macfarren. His principal study Was pianoforte, under the late Mr. Walter Macfarren, while he studied composition under the late Professor front While h«, the Academy Mr. Redman acted as assistant, organist at Bromptott Oratory, and also at tlie Carmelite Church. In 1883 he was appointed organist and choirmaeter at St. Albans, Birmingham, but returned two years later and re-entered the Royal Academy of Music, acting as assistant to Sir John Barnby, In 1886 he was appointed to Ms present position as organist at Briston Parish Church, and the following year was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Mr. Redman founded the Brixton Choral Society, which subsequently became the Brixton Oratorio Choir. This organisation gives frequent "oratorio services," some ninety of these having been given since the year 1900. During the last season the follow, ing works have been thus performed :— • "Stebat Mater" (Dvorak), "Morset Vita" (Gounod), "Requiem" (Brahms), "Last Jfldgment" (Spohr), "Requiem" (Verdi), "Mes&iah" (Handel), and "Elijah" (Mendelssohn). Mr. Redman's principal compositions are the overtures "HarvesMide" and "Christiana," and a quartet for strings in G-minor 5 also church services, part-songs, and a cantata for female voices. Mr. Redman is due in Wellington about the middle of October.