BAND CONTEST.
CRYSTAL PALACE OHABfPIONSHiP. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 28, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 27. The Crystal Palace championship was won by St. Kilda, with Black Dukc second and Newcastle Steelworkers third.
NEWCASTLE MISSES TRIUMPH. AUSTRALIANS EULOGISED. Received Sept. 28, 11.5 p.m. London, Sept. 28. The al tendance at the Crystal Palace was over fifty thousand for the band championship. The Newcastle steel-workers’ band, after a successful provincial tour and an achieved record by winning at the Halifax and Bellevue contests in the same season, hoped to add a triple crown, but had to take third place by the closestmargin. Sixteen of the best bands in Britain participated in the test piece entitled “On the Corpish Coast.” It was a rhapsody specially composed for the contest by Mr. Henry Geehl, who acted as one of adjudicators. Th© piece was built upon old Cornish airs and arranged to test to the fullest every instrumentalist. The Australians were enthusiastically ovationed at the concert following the competition, when they played Jenkins’ tone poem “Life Divine,” for which they were doubly encored, giving “Kelda” by Code, a Melbournian, and “Because.” In both cases Arthur Spender played cornet solos. The band leaves on October 16, and tours South Africa, and proposes later to tour New Zealand and Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1924, Page 5
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