NELSON BANDS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 98, 23 October 1934, Page 3

NELSON BANDS

TAKAKA WIN CONTEST

(Special to the "Evening Post.")

NELSON, October 22,

With a total of 249 points in the quickstep competition, 260 points in tho music aggregate, 88 in the hymn, and 89 in the test selection, the Takaka Citizens' Band won the band contest on Saturday against Nelson Citizens, > rotueka Municipal, and Wakefield Tlie association's shield for most musical points scored during the day and the Gahagen Cup for the most military points in the quickstep contest, wore presented by Mr. A. De I'ina to Mr. 11. L. Eensemann, the conductor of tho Takaka Citizens' Band. Mr. Do Pina remarked on the improvement shown by all the bands, and congratulated the winners.

The adjudicator (Mr. E. Franklin), conductor of the Wellington Tramways Band, expressed his great delight with all ho had heard during the contest. The playing in the quickstep had been of a very high order, and the bands were quite up to tho standard required. They should go in more and more for marching music, with plenty of rhythm, and brilliance and let their playing have zest while on the march. The playing of tho hymns had been far beyond his expectations. Only three points separated first from last. The bands had excelled, and his advice was to keep on playing hymns and plenty of them, for they developed balance and tone. In the selections again he had been greatly pleased and surprised, for he realised that he had been judging young bands who had never competed in open company. It had been very difficult to separate the contestants. It was noticeable that where one band might fail in a piece another would excel, and. an even performance | was not attained. The ideal in a band contest was not so much brilliancy or blast as an even performance. Tho adjudicator remarked, in concluding, that he knew bandsmen liked to get a "kick" into their pieces, but tonal balance was all important.