Missing Musical Score Found After Concert Finished

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 December 1950, Page 5

Missing Musical Score Found After Concert Finished

SYDNEY, This Day (Rec. 11.5 a.m.). —The musical scores for Sir John Barbirolli’s first Australian concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra last night were found just after the concert finished. At 11 p.m. a man rang the Daily Telegraph newspaper and said that the scores were in the City Health Department offices.

A search by the town hall caretaker disclosed the scores still in their holders on top of the cleaner’s cabinet at the entrance to the Health Department, only about 10 paces from the stage door. - The mysterious caller said he was a keen follower of music and wanted to be a professional musician. He had acted because he admired Sir John Barbirolli and wanted him always to remember his visit to Sydney. He admitted taking the scores from the town hall while three other young men stood guard. The caller emphatically denied that any of those concerned were either university students oi- “bodgies.” (This is the current slang name for youths who avidly follow modern popular music trerids and wear extravagant clothes.) Sir John Barbirolli received a severe shock last night when it was discovered that all the music for the concert had been removed.