MASSED BAND CONCERT
BLIND BOYS TAKE PART A massed hand recital was given in the Lewis Eady Hall before a large audience last evening by the Auckland Grammar School Band, assisted by the band of the First Auckland Regiment (incorporating the Auckland Boys' Military Band) and the band of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind. The conductors were Bandmasters C. N. Nicholls and G, W. Bowes. A feature of the programme was the excellent performance of the boys of the institute, whose jilaying of selections from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and ; the difficult exhibition march, "Twentieth Century" was warmly applauded. The Blind Institute Jazz Band also played a medley of English melodies and other invigorating pieces. The performance of the Grammar School Band was a remarkably .fine # one. This band was formed only three years ago and has made splendid headway. The three bands combined in a massed rendering of "Tile Grenadiers" valse and tho fantasia "Fox and Hounds," with which tho programme was concluded. Between the items (here was singing by the Auckland Grammar School Minstrels and gongs and instrumental solos by members of the bands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21325, 28 October 1932, Page 14
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188MASSED BAND CONCERT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21325, 28 October 1932, Page 14
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