BAND DISPLAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 22 February 1905, Page 10

BAND DISPLAYS.

(To the Kditor.l Sir.—After the instructive contest that has just been held in Auckland, it is to bo regretted tliat some oi the band? whoso music !.-.» been highly appreciated could 11 t stay here longer. The education:.! win; , of a performance like th-it of "Gems of Mendelssohn"' is intluputial, not only for our own bands, but for the whole public of Auckland, exclusive of the d> , .? and the muaicnroof. If we f.oulil. occasionally, have classical m'isie played by a pood band. 1 believe that the modem taste for utter rubbish called r".i =it would be abolished, (■nee and for oil. .As .n nil round combination the W.mcraniii Band undoubtedly deserved the frst place: but the Kaikorni Band merit* special praise for expression and I judge that our bands will soon ucmonstr.up the I pood effect of the logons afforded by the recent contest, and 1 shall keep mv can- open k: I have a bold pupareition to m>»ke, » very dangerous thing here. because one is liable to be ridiculed for bovine: iik-ns out of Ilie ordinary track |j -'.iaII take the yi-=k.i I should like to -c.- , :m International liand Association orirmii.-ed. for the purpose of takini; round the world, in •urns, excellent l.:in.!- from ai! Europe, r.nd even from fndia. and North and Snutii America, The-c could he brought round, say. three at n time ever , ." two years. I do uot intend to !i!l your columns with detail-- of the - 'nemo (neither do yon). I leave the lo the supposed As-ociatioi). wl-.rrcver it may .-t.iii o]>er:ii icn-. i plil under the iinpiccsiuii that tlie g.ime would Ik- well worth the candle, not i<nl\ pecuniarily, bu: a~ an unsurpassed lc-ver for elevating musical t.i-t.-. New Zealand would, of course, be one of (he countries visited. Naturally, ii musical race like ourselves claims a ]e:if of the laurel.—l am, etc.. MAURICE R. KEESING.