BAND CONTEST
TEST MUSIC ANNOUNCED. I Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON. Nov. 21. Selections of test music for the New Zealand championship band contest to be held at Wellington in February, are announced. In the A Grade the two test pieces will be Wagner’s “Meistc--singers” and Elgar’s “Severn Suite, which was the championship test a* the Crystal Palace contest at Home last September, when the famous Foden’s Band gained first honours. “The Severn Suite,” which is dedi cated by the composer “To his friend George Bernard Shaw,” so far has no* been performed in New Zealand.
The A Grade March will be Hume’s “BP> and UF.” The B Grade selections are “Hamlet.” by Ambroisc Thomas, ami Rimmer’s arrangement of Mendelssohn’s works. The B Grade march will be Hume’s “Flying Squad.”
The entries are very satisfactory from .13 A Grade and 22 B Grade Bands. For the hymn test 28 bands have entered.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 430, 22 November 1930, Page 6
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151BAND CONTEST Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 430, 22 November 1930, Page 6
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