BANDS TESTED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1924, Page 7

BANDS TESTED

CRYSTAL PALACE CONTEST NEWCASTLE TAKES THIRD PLACE. (DNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—CGPSRIOHT.) (AUSTiULIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION^ LONDON, 28th September. The Crystal Palace band championj ship was won by St.- Hilda, with Blackj dyke second, and Newcastle Steel WorkI ers third. There waa an attendance of Over SO 000 .The Newcastle Steel Workers' Band after a successful provincial tour, and having achieved the record of 'winning the- Hal? fax and Bellevue contests in the same season, hoped to add a third victory, but had to tako third place by the closest margin. Sixteen of the best bands of Britain participated in the test piece, entitled "On the- Cornish Coast." It was a rhapsody specially composed for the contest by Henry Geohl, who acted as one of the adjudicators. The piece is built tipon old Cornish airs, and is arranged to test to the fullest every instrumentalist. i The Australians received an enthusiastic ovation at the concert following the competition, when they played Jen" kins's tone poem, "Life Divine," for which they received a double encore giving "Zelda," by Code, of Melbourne, and "Because." In both cases Arthur Spender played the cornet solos. The band will leave on 16th October on tours of South Africa and proposes later to tuur New. Zealand and Australia,