THE WORLD OF MUSIC
New Zealand Band Contest The New Zealand championship brass bands contest will open in Wellington tomorrow, lasting for a week. Peter Dawson at Work in Factory From canned music to cans. That is what the war has done to Peter Dawson, Australia’s famous bassbaritone and maker of twelve million gramophone records. For the time being he has forsaken the artistic life and joined his brother Will £t the Dawson Canister Factory in Camperdown. He likes what he has seen of Big Business. But he does not consider his singing days are over. “When my present contract is finished I shall take to the concert platform.” Peter plans to bring his home over from Britain—including his two pianos and his wonderful collection of gramophone records.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21041, 17 February 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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