DERRY’S BAND

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11649, 13 October 1923, Page 5

DERRY’S BAND

COMING TO WELLINGTON. Derry’s Military Band will arrive in Wellington from Christchurch by tho ferry boat next Saturday morning, ready for the grand concert which is to be given at the Town Hall in the evening. The full band of 66 performers is visiting the city, and it will be an exceptional opportunity of hearing a first-class performance not often available. The programme will include the fantasia, “A Day at West Point,” describing a day’s work at a military academy; the Andante Con Moto and Allegro un Poco Agitato from Mendelssohn’s Scotch Symphony; the popular fox trot. “By Heck,” and tho overture “Ruy Bias” (MendelseolinBartholdy), with piccolo solo by the leading soloist of the Dominion. A special feature will be “The Smithy in the Woods,” describing night, the approaching dawn, morning breaks, the rushing brook and the song of tho birds, the chimes of the steeple clock, the morning hymn, and the village smith lighting his forge and starting his day’s work. This is one of the band’s most popular numbers. The band’s accersories include chimes, timpans, side and bass drums, etc.