Music Examinations

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 50, 17 December 1924, Page 17

Music Examinations

CONVENT OF MERCY, GREYMOUTH. [T On December 1 and 2, Mr. Wesley Roberts conducted the practical examination for the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, London. The following pupils from the Convent of Mercy, Greymouth, were successful: Y Intermediate Local —Ethel Wallace honors) 140. Higher Division —Owens' doline Orr (distinction) 130, Mary Orr, Cecil Williams, Lilias Moss, Ivy Carey. Lower Di—William Low (violin). Elementary Division —Jessie Pope (distinction) 138, Sheila McSherry (distinction) 133, Rita Munson (distinction) 132, Daisy Marshall, Ethel Parsonage, Rose Larcombe, Clare Phillips, Kathleen Shannahan, Nellie Rose (violin), Kathleen Higgins, Isabel Marshall. Primary Division Desmond Fogarty (violin, distinction) 130, Phil Warnes (violin), Edith Quinn, Blossom Addison, Mary Boddy, Lindsay Abbie (violin), Maureen Washer, Jewel Beck, Roland Excell (violin), Sheila Wingham, Harry Bowes (violin), Edna Stratford, Cecilia Mcbertson. SACRED HEART GIRLS' COLLEGE, CHRISTCHURCH. The following pupils of the Sisters of the Missions, Ferry Road, Christchurch, were successful in the recent practical examination in connection with the Associated Board of R.A.M. and R.C.M., London: Final Grade Mercy Cook. Advanced Grade—lsla Barter. Intermediate Grade- — Annie Hudd (Distinction, violin), Lucy Fullwood, Connie Morris, Kevin McMenamin (violin). Higher Division —Mavis Roi, MolV (violin). Higher Division Mavis Lower Dilie McCormiek, Kathleen Brady. Lower Division—Annie Hudd (harp), Leo McMenamin (violin), William Lane, Mollio Ryan, Eileen Brice, Jean Coleman. Primary Division Grace Nixon (distinction), Nellie O'Brien, Mollie Cummings, Sybil Perkin, Lucy McHugh, Joan Delahunt (violin). ■ <><> MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS SWEEPS ENTIRE WORLD. The magic of Christmas lies over the world to-day, changing the dreary commonplace events of yesterday into things of wonder and delight and filling the earth with happiness and joy and cheer. It permeates the whole earth from end to end, and mankind in every land and in every clime responds to it in the fullest measure. For into our hearts at this time there comes a beautiful something that raises us above ourselves and brings us to greater heights than we ever reach at any other time. For with the magic of Christmas time man buries self in trying to promote the happiness and well-being of others and in doing this he finds greatest happiness for himself also. For it seems as if the more we /give of love, of service and of ourselves the r fuller grows the store from which we draw upon and the richer we grow in the things that make for our own happiness. Let us then allow the magic of Christinas to fall upon us so deeply that it may not . only stay with us at this time but through I. all the days to follow.

•HISS ANNIE HUDD, Pupil of the Mission Convent, Christchurch, who won the Trinity College Gold Medal for Senior Division (Violin), and obtained Distinction for Intermediate Division of R.A.M.

REAL CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. If the real spirit of Christmas is within us we will, indeed, find that it is more blessed to (jive than to receive, and we will give out of the fulness of our hearts and Because of the joy that giving brings us.

THE CHRISTMAS BABE. So small that lesser lowliness Must bow to worship or caress; So great that Haeven itself to know Love's majesty must look below. * —Rev. John B. Tabb.