MUSIC EXAMINER
DR H. C. COLLES TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND LONDON, July 20. The examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal College of Music this year will be Dr H. C. Colies. He expects to reach New Zealand during the first week in October from Sydney after a stay of some six weeks in Australia. He will be in New Zealand for a similar period. Dr Colics is very well known in English musical circles. He is the editor of Grove's Dictionary, and he has recently completed a new edition. He has been musical critic of The Times since 1911. Music has been his life. After being educated privately, he studied at the Royal College of Music, and then went to Worcester College, Oxford, as an organ scholar. He holds the degrees of 8.A., B.Mus., and D.Mus. (Hon.). Dr Colies is honorary freeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and an honorary fellow of Worcester College. Pie has been a member 9! the Board of Royal College of Music since 1923, and of the Associated Board since 1924. He has written several books on music. “It will be my first visit to New Zealand," said Dr Colics this week. “I am looking forward to it immensely,”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23885, 12 August 1939, Page 17
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