MUSIC EXAMINATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23122, 23 November 1938, Page 16

MUSIC EXAMINATIONS

ROYAL SCHOOLS RESULTS THE PRACTICAL TESTS The annual practical examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (London) were conducted in Dunedin by Mr Felix Swinstead, F.R.A.M. The following are the results (the candidates’ names appearing in alphabetical order without regard to the order of merit): — DUNEDIN CENTRE Licentiate (L.R.S.M.) (Teacher’s Diploma) Sylvia V. Lawrence (Miss W. Gardner), Edna Muriel Philip (Mr Max Scherek), Mary Joy Robertson (Miss M. G. Fraser). Rona Renfrew Thomson (singing; Mr G. W. Johnstone). Licentiate (L.R.S.M.) (Performer’s Diploma) William G. Allen (Barth School of Music), Blance Errington (singing: Mr G. W. Johnstone), Roger Henry James Howell (Mrs H. C. Campbell). Islay Mavis McKellar (Barth School of Music). Grade VIII (Final) Distinction: Ritchie Johnston Hanna (violin; Miss Ethel Wallace). Pass with credit: Dorothy Clark (Miss W. Gardner). Pass: Kathleen Hazel Bell (Mrs Raynor Bell and Mr F. Cawley), Joan Marion Benton (Miss A. Champion), Margaret Isabel Ewing (Miss M. G. Frazer), Gertrude M. S. Hall (Miss G. Hall). June Oliphant (Miss B. Favell). Grade VII (Advanced) Distinction: Rosemary E. Cameron (Miss B. Favell). Pass with credit: Claire I. Neale (Mrs L. B. Neale and Mr Cawley). Pass: Roland Anderson (violin; Mr C. Roy Spackman), Ailsa Poulter (violin: Mr C. Roy Spackman). Grade VI (Intermediate) Pass: Jean Cumberbeach (Mr C. Roy Spackman), Iris May Ford (Miss E. Ford), Dorothy Lewis (Mr C. Roy Spackman), Myra Meffen (violin; Mr C. Roy Spackman), Lorna Jean Pile (Miss E. Ford). , Grade V (Higher) Pass: Marion Dawson (St. Hilda’s College), Mavis Dobbin (viola; Miss N. G. H. Hobson), James Edgar (violin: Miss N. G. H. Hobson), Elsie Fraser (Miss Betty Johnson). Joan Gardiner (violin: Mrs Munro), Margaret Gardiner (Mrs Munro), Betty Naylor (Miss M. E. M. Allan). Margaret Palmer (Miss Edna Dry). Grade IV (Lower) Distinction: Catherine Erin Cameron (Miss B. Favell). Pass: Margaret Melville Gray (Mr Frank Cawley). Lorraine Hoyne (Miss Edna Dry), Naida Matheson (Miss Edna Dry), Nola McCay (Miss E. Wilson), Elizabeth V Somerville (violin; Miss N. G. H. Hobson), Pamela Stokes (Miss Edna Dry) Margaret Lois Webb (Miss A. Kirk). Mary Wentworth (Mr ,C. Roy Spackman). Grade HI (Transitional) Pass with credit: Olive Knewstubb (Miss O. Perry), Lesney V. Lochhead (Miss. B. Favell), -Yvonne B. Scott (Miss B. Favell), Valerie Wilkinson (Miss I. M. Jones). Pass: Frances Adams (violin; Miss Ada Sinclair), Doris L. Anderson (Mr Frank Cawley), Shirley Allen Birchall (violin; Miss N, G. H. Hobson). Daphne Carruthers (Miss W. Williamson). Daphne Cockerill (Miss A. Lane), Victor Dick (Miss Mary Martin). John Hercus (Miss M. E. M. Allan). Dorothy Jarvis (Miss Edna Dry), Elizabeth Martin (Miss Mary Martin). Marjorie Grace Murray (violin; Miss N. G. H. Hobson), Gerald F. Renton (Miss M. G Frazer), Doris Margaret Ross (Miss N. Anderson). Grade II (Elementary) Pass with credit: Glynne A. Adams violin; Miss Ethel Wallace), Elaine V. Jeffery (Mrs Raynor Bell), Barbara Paterson (Miss B. Favell). Pass; Joan Allan (Miss Ivy Smith), Eugenie A vent (Miss J. M. Jones) Noeline Carrington (Miss Mary Martin), Dorothy Marian B. Cunningham (Miss E. Ford), Beverly Yvonne Fahey (Miss E Wilson), Sheila McCrostie Ferguson (Miss E. Ford), Margaret J. Harris (Miss L. Lindon). Jean Margaret Hight (Miss J. Allan), Eva Johnson (Miss Betty Johnson), Valerie Munro Jones (Miss O. Perry), Ernest Mcßryde (violin; Mr James Mcßryde). Joseph Bruce McCaig (Miss B. Favell). Audrey McCay (Miss E. Wilson), Patricia McFadden (Miss W. Gardner), Patricia McDougall (Miss J. M. Jones), Arnold Moore (Miss E. Wilson) June Pattenden (Miss Mary Martin). John Perry (Miss J. M, Jones). Elvina May (Jfton (Miss M. McMahon), Nola Walker (Miss Edna Dry), Arthur Wood (violin; Mr H. Riddle). Grade I (Primary) Distinction: Evan M. Jones (Miss O. Perry). Pass with credit: Jean Dow (singing; Miss M. H. Gawne), Jocelyn B. Thomson (Miss M. E. Allan). Pass: Harold W Begg (violin: Miss N. G. H. Hobson), Betty Davidson (Mr James Mcßryde), Rita Friedlander (Miss E. Wilson). Claire Gilbert (Miss E. Williamson). Billy Moore (violin; Mrs Munro), Adele Wilson (Miss O. Perry), Shirley Joan Woikman (violin; Miss Ethel Wallace). Preliminary Division Eleanor Armstrong (Miss Betty Johnson). Lowell Graham (Mr Frank Cawley). Pamela Guy (Mrs H, C. Campbell). Elizabeth Joan Haig (Miss I Hume), Jean Mary McAuliffe (Mrs Munro), Joyce Winifred White (Miss E. F. Murray). Bernard E. Wilkinson (violin; Miss Ada Sinclair). i COLUMBA COLLEGE Licentiate (L.R.S.M.) (Performer’s Diploma) Pass: Frances White (singing; Miss Ida G. White). Grade VIII (Final) Pass; Margaret Churcli (Miss M. G* Frazer), Olwen McKenzie (Miss M. G. Frazer). Grade VII (Advanced) Pass with credit: Mary Lord (Miss M. G. Frazer), Catherine Stewart (Miss M. G. Frazer). Grade VI (Intermediate) Distinction: Honor McKellar (singing; Miss Ida G. White). Pass: Olwen McKenzie (singing; Miss Ida G. White). Grade IV (Lower) Pass: Annette Borrie (Miss Marjorie .-illan), Barbara Burns (Miss Marjorie Allan). Grade 1 (Primary) Pass: Sylvia Thomson (Miss Marjorie Allan). ROSLYN SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Miss Tui Hutton) Grade V (Higher) Pass with credit: Betty Nicholls. Pass: Patricia Waters. Grade IV (Lower) Distinction: Betty McDonald. Pass with credit: SJiirley Brunton, Joy Harding. Grade 111 (Transitional) Pass: June Lees.

Grade II (Elementary) Pass; Murray McDougall, Arthur Sherriff. Grade 1 (Primary) Distinction: Elizabeth Simpson. Pass 1 with credit: Nancy McCall. Pass: Betty Fletcher. Preliminary Division Elizabeth Caffin. ST. DOMINIC’S PRIORY Grade VIII Pass: Gabrielle Brett, Berenice Munro, Joan Woods. Grade VII Pass with credit: Hilary Runnerstrum (singing) Pass: Constance Kane, Myrna Simpson, Dorothy Suters, Gwen Wright. Grade VI Pass with credit; Patrick Curran. Pass: Vera Aitken, Margaret Hayes. Katherine Holland. Marie Meehan. • Grade V Distinction: Thora McCrombie (singing). Pass: Patricia Hamilton, Patricia McDougall, Nanette Muir, Joan Prisk. Constance Sim. Grade IV Pass with credit: Agnes Campbell (singing), Betty Malthus Pass: Helen Geaney, Norma Hornell. Frances Morrison. Joyce Mowat, Grade 111 Distinction- Pamela Margaret Barton. Pass with credit; Shirley Cogan Margaret McCaw Margaret Meehan. Grade II Distinction. Irene Naismith. Pass with credit: Frances L. Lynch. Pass: Mary Cameron, Eileen Keenan, Mary T. Lynch, Kathleen McCombie (singing), Stephanie Mooney, Irene Pedotsky, Ngaire Vincent. Grade I Pass: Margaret Mary Dunn. Preliminary Division Joan McLean.