Conductor Of New Stole Orchestra
(p.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A statement that the appointment of Mr A. Tyrer as conductor of the new National Symphony Orchestra was purely political was made by Professor A. C. Keys, president of the Auckland Chamber Music Society this morning.
He said the appointment had bee«i done in quite a wrong way in that the position was not advertised and therefore Mr Tyrer got the job without competition.
Mr Colin Muslon, conductor of the Auckland Choral Society and Auckland Symphony Orchestra said the only grievance of musicians was that the appointment was not advertised. At the same time he did not think anyone in Australia or New Zealand would have accepted it. He said Mr Tyrer was a competent man end so far as his appointment was concerned musicians in New Zealand had no axe to grind. Mr James Leighton, president of the Auckland Society of Music Teachers, said as far as he could judge, Mr Tyrer had been appointed to train the orchestra and he thought that after that was done endeavours would be made to obtain guest conductors.
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Northern Advocate, 26 June 1946, Page 5
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