GAOL ORCHESTRA
LED BY WIFE MURDERER SYDNEY, October 4. Composed principally of long-term prisoners, tbe orchestra formed in j Go-ulburn Gaol by Alister Jenner ! Clarke, under sentence for the term of bis natural life, is rapidly taking shone. On Saturday afternoons it practises in a storehouse in the gaol, its music including compositions by Clarke. Soon the members will present a concert to their fellow prisoners. The orchestra includes three violinists—one serving a life sentence for a crime of violence at Campsie, a second serving 15 years for :ni attack on a taxi-driver, and the other a chemist under long sentence. Clarke, convicted of wife murder on March 20, 1929. was discovered in gaol to be a musical genius. By snecial permission he was taught the piano, and passed with credit a series of Conservator! um examinations. He composes on the chapel piano, and has studied orchestration with the aid of gramophone records. Although he plays the ’cello in his orchestra, he has also mastered the piano, organ, clarinet, and violin.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1936, Page 2
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