SCHOOL MUSIC FESTIVAL
No fewer than seven choirs, six from Palmerston North’s senior schools and one from the Wanganui Intermediate School, will participate in the initial presentation of a music festival in the Opera House on Thursday. October 4. Each school. will entertain with 15 minutes of singing, while n diversion is included with items by the bamboo pipe band from the Manchester Street School, Feikling. The finale will bo a massed rendition of Parry’s “England” by the combined choirs numbering just ovor 400 voices. The billeting of the Wanganui and Feikling performers has been undertaken by the Palmerston North Intermediate School. No small part of the value of tho festival lies in the, social contact engendered by the members of the various choirs getting to know one another. Reservations may be made at Collinson and Cunninghame’s as from tomorrow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 256, 27 September 1945, Page 6
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