PRIZE FOR MUSIC
STUDENT COMPOSER DOMINION CONTEST (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Mr. Douglas [album, of Christchurch, has won the Percy Grainger competition for a, typical New Zealand musical composition. Mr. Lilburn, who is aged 20, is a student at Canterbury College where he is studying for the degree of bachelor of music. The winning composition is a tone, poem for an orchestra entitled “Forest." The competition was conducted by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board at the suggestion of Mr. Grainger, who gave the first prize of £25, the board providing the second and third prizes of £lO arid £5. The other prize winners are not yet known.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 8
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109PRIZE FOR MUSIC Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 8
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