ROYAL ACADEMY MUSICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13543, 16 March 1906, Page 2

ROYAL ACADEMY MUSICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Mr T. F. Dunhill, examiner for tho Associated Hoard of the Koyal Academy of -Music, having concluded, hi? North Island engagements, left Wc'.lirißton for Christchurch yesterday, and a telegram from him was received by the local centre yesterday stating that Mr Dunhill is expected to arrive in Dunedin on Arjril 10 for the pur. jMse of conducting the local examinations in music, which were postponed in consequence of the illness of Mr (iraham P. .Moore. Arrangements are now being made to have as many pupils as possible examined before tho Faster holidays in order to suit the convenience of teachers and pupils as far as possible. At the conclusion of tho board's examinations in New Zealand Mr Dunhill will undertake a similar tour in Australia, which will probably occupy his attention for eight or leii months. Being a prominent figure in ireusi. cal circles in the Old Country, some 'details of his career, taking from a Vienna musical journal, will be of interest. In 1893 ho entered the Royal College of Music, and studied at first under Franklin Taylor'; four years later he gained a scholarship for composition. His later and more advanced studies were directed bv Sir Charles Villicrs Stanford and Mr George Jacobi. In 1900 he was appointed professor of the pianoforte at Eton College, where he has remained to tho present day. He also holds the position of Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at the Royal College, London. Mr Dunhill has met with a good deal of success as a composer. His orchestral works include a rhapsody, a concert.-tuck for violin, a song for baritone and "orchestra, '"Comrades," which was' sung at the Worcester Musical Festival of this year: and finally, a choral ballad,

"Tubal Cain." His best songs are "Four songs from Vagabondia," and " Songs of innocence." Several excellent piano works are published, and of these it suffices to say that he displays a sense of the aise of the instrument which is yearly becoming more rare.