THE EXHIBITION CANTATA.
The exhibition commissioners have given a prize of 50 guineas for a cantata to be set to music and sung at the opening. The prize has gone to the Eev. Mr Alien, a Congregational minister, who is an old Scotch College boy, famous when a lad for his powers as a reciter. But it is only poor stuff, scarce worthy of the occasion, and musical composers declare that any attempt to set it to music will result, in a fiasco, so that the commissioners seem to have paid dearly for an unsuitable poem.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1894, 9 March 1888, Page 22
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96THE EXHIBITION CANTATA. Otago Witness, Issue 1894, 9 March 1888, Page 22
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