MUSIC EXAMINATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16959, 19 September 1918, Page 8

MUSIC EXAMINATIONS.

ASSOCIATED BOARD RESULTS. AUCKLAND SUCCESSES. The principal list of passes at the examinations in Auckland under the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London, which have been in progress for the last three , reeks is now available. Several local centra , results are withheld until 'the theory Cl ex- . animation has been passed. The list of suecessful candidates—who in (he primary and elementary grades are not given in order ol merit, and relate to the pianoforte where not otiierwiso stated— as iohowb;— Primary.— i'ariunaou taislinction), Ivy Jucl/owau, &dna i>etus, t'loreine iiiicn- ■ tie.d, U. Dennis, x\usio tfiOtuce'r (viuiin;, , j-ogar blotter, juartua mil,' .uonoi, Wuson, , Vincent liovine, ueo. bomunuu, Aiireu Joyous, Doroiny Bisaop, 'lesoa wecKmau, ' uoxii jiditu jroarce, Sydney i-bipps, Lym i i\orton, Alice iiaitoim, Aiarjone Browne, . Iris nartiey, Mary Oieeie, inyuis bmtou, r'. . Nola butenne, Uaisy autcime, mi Williams, iwggio Harris, Marjorie Junior, ' Catherine aicCorrmcs, U. AicConnivk, i fcraak rickering, Jean Short, Phy.lis Cum- [ mings, Vaida Uidbury, ins hate, hazel , hyxand, Vernon Malunes, Edna Auckrain, May Dawson, bcrcen Koseman, Lizzie iioyd, Jean Miner, Nina t'raser, iViico . > Thomas, Elaine Blair, Margaret ] . Kosy Ajbrecht, Joyce Tayior (violin), Margaret Patterson, Kgueri Benson, Daphne Bind, Rita West, Lveiyn Thompson, E. liOueset-Cosscy. Margaret Traliord, Gladys Grayson, Noil Canavan, Alma- Stem-, 1 Arnold Stchr, Trevor Smith, Nellie Mur- » doch, Ruby Donald, Hicko Kaihau, Barry j. fcrost, None Jowett, Elva Carr, Clarice Barkins, Leslie Colgan, Geo. Daldorf, Ruby e Smith, Sybil Ball, Margaret Singer,' Biiy . 1 Smithies, Maxie Glover, Alice Hartley i i. (singing), Adrian Greia, Ireno Griffen. Elementary.—Elsie Laurent, Eva Cleland, } May Bray, Jack Shettield, Dorothy Jeffs, " John McKeown, Phyllis McCreavy, Victor i- Hoffman,' Esßleraont Martin, Aiisa Rogers, 0 Lorna Moss, Marjone Tiarks, Ivan Whitehead, Winnie Edwards. Phyllis Lewins, Margaret McConnack, Nancy Matthews, Mar- * Tory McMillan, Muriel Ruddy, Viva Bartlett, , Meryl Scott, Janet Ross, Murray Hare, 5 Pearl Williams, Harry Martin (violin), iiyall Brooka (violin), Ivy Gordon, Ida oiuis, 8 Cecil Stokes, Mary Vincent, Kathleen Crookes, Charles Crookes, Gwennoth Buisson, Isabel Totnian Ruth b'tronach (violin), Margaret Blaikio, Eman Smith, Vera Fielder, Evelyn Thompson, Eva Chapman, ' i Eisma Cunningham, Victoria Wilkin, Rose ' ; Taylor, Jack Carr, Eva Thompson, Lottie 1 Harrison. Ena Orr, Grace Shaw, Beryl Kent, | Winnie Hawkin, Isabel Isemonger, Ettie , Packman. Irene Nealh Fritz Host sard, Susie ' Giles, Lily Christie, Kathleen Bernard, Doris > Halliwell, May Morris, Elizabeth Maire, •. Catherine Wallace, Althea Clarke, Elfroda i i G-ant, Patricia Smlgar, Thilma Mc) «ain 1 (violin), Violet Heaps (singing), Eileen II Dwyer, Ruby Noble, Ena White. a j Lower Div'sion (iu ord°r of merit).— '. Fielder, 1; Joyce Rotherham, 2; Rita West, 9; Francis' Tomlinson, Grace Scholium, 4; Eva ' Chapman, Joyce Parker, 6; Dorothy Boyd, James Hand, Marion Forde, Ailsa 0 Lee, Dorothy Smith, Ida Erictoon, 6; May n Rostgard,"; Nancy Niven, 8-, Chnssie Gar- " land, 9; Margaret Pickett, 10; Eileen Henry, e Arnold Seagar, Muriel Lyscar, Ethel Jones. (. 11; Oigft Miller (violin), Grace Comrie, Maud e James, 12; Elsie Bramblef, 13: My via i Kaihau, Isabel Galway, Molly Culpan, 14; 1 Irene Browne, Henry • Green, Olga Skinner, 8 15; Helen Rowley, Constance Young, 1G; . Edith Solomon, Dorothy Ussher. 17: Dons Jevona, Edward Golding, May Wotherspoon, Eileen Kiely (violin), 18. Higher Division -(in order of merit).— Phoebo Gardiner, Sylvia Berry, Amy Hill, 6 Beatrice Cowper, Sophie Attvaier, Charles c : Hoffmann, Helen Hillcoat, Irene Jenkin, Annie Aimer, Lily Kennedy, Eileen Mo-. * i Gowan, May Jndd, Chrissie Geddcs. > | Intermediate Local Centre (in order of I merit.—Vera Con tanca Hardr, iMincy i ! Blackwell, Martha Brown, Ella Hutchinson, Vernon Gallagher. - Advanced Local Centre,— Pollard, - Eileen Bush, Licentiate (solo performing exam).— . Evelyn Mary Harvey, Thelma Gallahor, Kathleen B'altey (singing), Lillian Quinn, ? Gertrude Gardner. 8 , Licentiate Teachers (violin).— Sullivan. B • PUKEKOHE CENTRE. > . Primary.— McArthur. Phillipa Zini &aH...Harel Arderh, Rita Wilkinson, Edith HoDeyford, Ella Brownlee. Elementary. — Phillipa Zinzan; Hazel 6 Ardern, Phyllis Blake, Margaret Rogers. a Lower.—Eileen Brownlee, Evelyn Browni. lee-, Marjory Woods. Higher.— MoNally. Mr. Howard Hadley, who is conducting the examinations, comments upon the heavy' percentage of failures in the " local centre " grades &a com oared-with the "school divisions," and states that candidates do not apnenr to realise that after massing the " higher" division a coiifiidenib'n umount of supplementary study is requisite before the nspirant is rendy to bee!" workin* on I the " intermediate " music. With regard to the li"on' , at' l c'a««i Mr. Tl(ir , i"" -•»-• <i.«t 0 t.honsfh tho mniority do not realise in the i least the standard required, the rercentaee . i of passes is lusher than in the large centres 11 in Australia, and he has heard otic or two ' really excellent performances, playing which was a real pleasure to listen to. )• i.