TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

Evening Star, Issue 23651, 10 August 1940, Page 9

TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS The first presentation of the Technical High School patriotic concert will be on Monday evening in the Town Hall. The original plan included one concert only, but owing to the large demand for tickets it has been decided to give a second concert on Tuesday evening. The massed school choir of almost 700 voices will sing with either orchestral or organ accompaniment. Most of the choral singing is in six parts, with the novel feature of two groups of adolescent male voices chosen from the boys of the school. The programme includes Handel’s famous ‘ Hallelujah Chorus,’ ‘ Jerusalem,’ ‘ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,’ and several hymn anthems with organ accompaniments, as well as well-known operatic choruses accompanied by orchestra, a type of work not often attempted by a school choir. The school orchestra of over 100 instruments has, too, an ambitious programme to present. The items are varied to include several representative of those most useful in ordinary school life, as well as the more difficult concertos and overtures of a standard similar to that attempted by adult orchestras. The fact that the proceeds will go to swell the Otago patriotic fund is an added justification for the long and untiring work both of the pupils of the school and of the musical director, Dr Vernon Griffiths. Tickets for Monday evening’s concert are no longer available, but those for Tuesday may still be obtained from punils of the school or at the school itself.

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