MASSED BANDS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20222, 5 February 1934, Page 5

MASSED BANDS.

Brilliant Exhibition Seen j Yesterday. CONTEST FUNDS HELPED. I A fine example of the comradeship J existing amongst the bandsmen of the j city was given yesterday afternoon. ! when six bands—the Woolston. Ist I Canterbury Regimental and Municipal, ; and the Christchurch Scottish. Caiedo- ; nian and Christchurch Scottish Soci- j ety’s Pipe Bands—joined in a grand j display at Lancaster Park with the : object of raising funds sc that the • Municipal Band may attend the Do- j minion band contest at Wellington in j a fortnight's time The programme was as toi- j lows: Massed bands, march. “ Colo- j nel Bogey ” (conductor. Mr R. J. ! Estall): Christchurch Scottish Pipe,' Exhibition March (Pipe-Major J. Pat-; erson); Ist Canterbury Regimental, t\Vo selections (conductor. Captain C. Hoskins) ; Caledonian Pipe, selection (Pipe-Major J. Gibson): Woolston, two selections (conductor, Mr R. J. Estall) ; parade of massed pipe bands: Christchurch Municipal, contest selections, "Martha” (Flotow) and “Mock Doctor” (Gounod) (conductor. Mr J. Annand); Christchurch Scottish Society Pipe (Pipe-Major J. M’Lachlan); and Christchurch Municipal Band, contest march. In the evening, the Municipal Band a concert from the Edmonds Band Rotunda, the major attraction being the playing of the hymn selection, “ Sun of my Soul,” in memory of ihe band’s late conductor, Mr F. W. Buckley, who arranged the hymn. Again the band was given an ovation j for its test selections.