MUSIC EXAMINATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 22515, 7 December 1936, Page 6

MUSIC EXAMINATIONS

PRACTICAL PASSES ASSOCIATED BOARD OF ROYAL SCHOOLS The annual practical examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools 'of Music (London) have been conducted in-Dunedin by Mr Michael Head, A.8.A.M., and the following are the results (the names of the candidates appear in alphabetical order without regard to the order of merit): LICENTIATE (L.R.S.M.) TEACHERS’ DIPLOMA. Dorothy Isabel M'lntosh (Barth School of Music). LICENTIATE (L.R.S.M.) PERFORMER’S DIPLOMA. Alan Ramsay Howie (singing, 0 W. Johnstone), Marion A. Jeffery (Miss A. Champion), Colin George H. Oliver (Wilfred Kershaw), Doris Christina Paterson (Mrs A. C. Fahey), Eileen Sullivan (Mrs Mangos). GRADE TIE (FINAL). Pasa.—lan Alister Ballantyne (violin, C, Roy Spademan), Jean Gardner (Min W. Gardner), Albert lan Lawson (violin, Mr Rees M'Oonachy). GRADE VII. (ADVANCED.) Honourable Mention. —Dorothy Clark (Miss W. Gardner), John Peters (violin, C. Roy Sc adman). Pass.—Muriel Doreen Clarkson (organ, Mr E. Heywood), Leslie Albert Coombes (Miss M. Martin), Jocelyn Eastgate (violin, C. Roy Spackman), Margaret Helen Hill (singing. G. w. Johnstone), Rai M'Nicoll (Miss Jean B, Gloss), Alan James Meldrum (MiMax Scherek), Muriel Mowatt (Miss M. Allan), Nancy Pike (singing. Miss Bertha Rawlinson), Margaret B. Plew (Miss A. A. Wilson), Elva Jackson Russell (Miss Mary Martin), Thelma Sinclair (singing. G. W. Johnstone), Joyce Workman (Miss Edna Dry). GRADE VI. (INTERMEDIATE). Honourable Mention. Ritchie I. Hanna (violin, Miss Ethel Wallace). Pass. Bridget R. Hassett (violin, Miss Nancy Hobson), Alan Joel (Mrs Blanche Levi), Catherine Lockhead (Miss B. Favell), Frances Anne Malcolm (Miss Mary Watson). Shirley Owen-Johnstone (Archerfiold School, Miss Bird). GRADE V. (HIGHER). Honourable Mention.—Rosemary E. Cameron (Miss B. Favell), Ronald Flamank (Mis* A. Champion), Myra I. Meffan. (violin, Mens, do Rose), Clare I. Neale (Mrs L. B. Neale), Ailsa Poulter (violin, C. Roy Spackman). Pass.—Elizabeth Matheson (Miss E. Dry), Robert M'Oully (C. Roy Spademan), Ruth Stewart (Miss Rona Thomson), Margaret tfffcon (Miss A. A. Wilson), Betty Wilkinson (C. Roy Spackman), GRADE IV. (LOWER). Honourable Mention. Annie Carruthers (Miss E, Williamson), Lorna I. Pile (Miss Elsie Ford), Norma Kitchin (Miss M. A. Gardner). Pass. Gertrude Anderson (Miss Edna Dry), Dorothy Enid Cox (Miss E. Williamson), Jean Cumberbeach (C. Roy Spackman), Harold Dewhirst (Miss Jean B. Gloss). Elsie Fraser (Miss Betty Johnstone), Olwyn Junss (0. Roy Spackman), Marjorie Malcolm (Miss Rona Thomson), Kathleen Millar .(Roslyn School of Music), Joyce Pullen (Roslyn School of Music), Jeanette Rolbinson (Miss Rona Thomson), Joan Romola Sparrow (Miss Elsie Ford), Erena Lilv Summerfield (W. Paget Gale), Laurie Nelder Summerfield (W. Paget Gale). GRADE 111. (TRANSITIONAL). Distinction. Shirley M. Johnston (Miss D. I. Johnston). Honourable Mention. —Betty Nicholls (Roslyn School of Music), Ngila Slewlev (Miss A. B. Stevens). Dewhirst (Miss Jean B. Gloss). Heather M'lntyro (Miss A. Lane), Margaret Palmer (Miss Edna Dry). GRADE 11. (ELEMENTARY). Distinction.—Catherine E. Cameron (Miss B. Favell), Lorraine Hoyne (Miss E. Dry). Honourable Mention.—Shirley Brunton (Roslyn School of Music), Norman Mackway-Jones (Frank Cawley), Naida Matheson (Miss E. Dry), Betty Voisey (Miss B. Johnson). Pass. Joyce Davidson (James M'Bryde), Joan Mary Garden (Miss E. Ford). Betty Holdaway (Miss Jun« Evans), Eileen Jenkin fMiss M. Allan), Rosemary Thco E. Johnson (Miss B. Favell), Jovce Picard (Miss Rona Thomson), ‘Pamela Stokes (Miss Edna Dry), Gordon Wither (violin, James M'Bryde). GRADE I. (PRIMARY). Distinction.—Lesney Lockhead (Miss B. Favell), Valerie Wilkinson (Miss A Champion). Honourable Mention.—Daphne Cockerill (Miss A. Lane). Margaret B. M'Cullough (Miss E. Murray), Gerald Renton (Miss M. G. Frazer), Yvonne B. Stott (Miss B. Favoll). Pass.—Beatrice Childe (Miss Browning!, Dulcie M. Elliot Cecilia Millow), Millioent Johnson (Miss Betty Johnson), Ethne Leask (James M'Bryde), Ailsa Paterson (Roslyn School of Music), Paulino SimO (Miss M. G. Frazer), Laurie Thomson (Miss E. Dry). PRELIMINARY DIVISION. Pass.—Enid AbSrnethy (Miss O. F. G. Porteous). Hester Brough (James M'Bryde). Ernest M'Bryde (violin. James M'Bryde), Barbara Paterson (Miss B. Favell). COLUMBA COLLEGE. GRADE VIII. Honourable Mention. —Ruth Wesney (piano, Mr Max Scherek). GRADE VII. Honourable STention.—Frances White (singing, Miss Ida White). Pass. —Olwen M'Kenzie (Miss M. Frazer). GRADE VI. Honourable Mention. Margaret Church (Miss M. Frazer). p asg .—Mary Lord (Miss M. Frazer). GRADE V. Pass.—Milner Brown (Miss M. Fraser), Moira Crawford (singing, Miss Ida White). GRADE TV. Distinction. —Judith M'Kenzie (Miss Joyce Poole). Honourable Mention.^ —Jean Pannett (singing. Miss Ida White). Pass.—Marjorie Hogg (violin, Miss N. Hobson). GRADE 11. (PIANO). Pass. —Annette Borrie (Miss Joyce Poole), Barbara Burns (Miss Joyce Poole)*

ST. DOMINIC’S PRIORY. LICENTIATE (L.R.S.M.)— PERFORMER’S DIPLOMA. Ruth Haig (piano), Julia Holmes (violin)GRADE VII. Distinction. —Zeta Ewing (violin). Honourable Mention.—Phillis Fox. Pass.—Catherine Dreaver, Marie Hunt, Rcima Scott. GRADE VI. Honourable ■ Mention. Gahrielle Brett. Pass.—R. Braiihwaitc, Bernice Munro, Joan Woods. GRADE V. Honourable Mention .-—Gillies Ross. Pass.—Jane B. Fames, Natalie J. Hall, Dorothy Suters. GRADE IV. Distinction.—Marie Meehan. Honourable Mention.—Cecily M'Carmack (violin), Jean Hoggans (singing). GRADE 111. Distinction.—Constance Sim. Honourable Mention.—Joan Prist. Pass.—Mona Thomas. GRADE 11. Distinction.—May M'Combie (singHonourable Mention.—Eunice Geoffrey (singing), Frances Morrison. Pass. —Norma Hornell, Mary Keenan, Betty Malthus, Joyce M’Conville, Jean Tunnah. GRADE I. Distinction. —Shirley Cogan, Helen Geany, Merle Morris. Honourable Mention.—Vera Duthie, Margaret Meehan. Pass. —Betty Preen, John Preen, PRELIMINARY DIVISION. Norma Dagiessi,