MUSICAL ABILITY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20511, 1 September 1936, Page 7

MUSICAL ABILITY

IMPRESSIONS OF EISTEDDFOD JUDGE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 31, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 31. A special prize of £25 given by the Arts Club for the most promising voice among the competitors at the Eisteddfod was won by Mr Walter Carter, of Newcastle. The competitors included three New Zealanders. Miss Bertha Rawlinson, Miss Julie Warry and Miss Sybil Phillips. The adjudicator (Mr H. Temple White, of New Zealand), said that the men’s voices showed more promise than the women’s. Mr White, who is chief choral and vocal adjudicator at the Eisteddfod, broadcasting his impressions at the Eisteddfod, said that if some of the women entrants had given as much thought to their musical training and knowledge as they did to their appearance, the adjudicator and audience would have been very much more satisfied. Comparing the standard between New Zealand and Australia, Mr White said he thought New Zealand’s best competitors in such events as grand opera arias could rank with the best he had heard in Sydney. The mixed choirs, male and female choirs, and church choirs were far better than anything he had heard in the competition field in New Zealand.