MUSICAL COMPETITION
MEDICAL STUDENT’S WIN.
CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Mr Douglas Lilburn, of Christchurch, has won the Percy Grainger competition for a typical New Zealand musical competition. Mr Lilburn, who is aged 20, is at Canterbury College, studying for the degree of bachelor of music. The winning composition is a tone poem for orchestra entitled “Forest.” The competition was conducted by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board at the suggestion of Mr Grainger, who gave the first prize of £25, the board providing second and third prizes of £lO and £5. The other prize-winners are not yet known.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 October 1936, Page 8
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