BAND CONTEST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17346, 29 September 1924, Page 11

BAND CONTEST.

BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP. By Telegraph—Press A ssn.—Copvrigbt. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. September 28. At the Crystal Palace band contest the championship resulted : St Hilda ...... n Black Dyke .... 2 Newcastle Steel Works (Australia) .... 3

AUSTRALIAN BAND

LONDON, September 27. The attendance at the Crystal Palace was over 50,000 for the. band championship. The Newcastle Steel Workers’ Band, after a successful provincial tour and its record in winning the Halifax and Bellevue contests in the same season, hoped to gain the triple crown, but n had to take third place by the closest margin. Sixteen of the best bands in Britain participated in the test piece entitled “On the Cornish Coast.” It was a rhapsody, specially composed for the contest by Mr Henry Geehl, who acted as one of the adjudicators. The piece was built upon old Cornish airs, and arranged to test to the fullest every instrumentalist. The Australians were given an enthusiastic ovation at the concert following the competition, when they played Jenkins’s tone poem “ Life Divine,” for which they were doubly encored, giving ” Zelda ” by Code, a Melbournian and “Because.” In both cases Mr Arthur Stender played the cornet solos. The band will leave on October 16 and will tour .South Africa. It proposes later to tour New Zealand and Australia.