MUSIC EXAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 10

MUSIC EXAMS.

AUCKLAND PASSES.

ROYAL SCHOOLS TESTS.

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London, has held practical examinations in Auckland during the past three weeks, Air. Max Pirani being the examiner. Of the 333 candidates entered in all grades 292 passed, 12 gaining distinction and 64 credit passes. The following -passes are for pianoforte, unless otherwise stated, the candidates' names being given in alphabetical order: —

Licentiate.—Teachers: Joan Duthie, Ruth Kippenberger, Florence Margaret Mays. Performers: Eric Nelson Craig (violin), Dorothy Beatrice Harper (singing), Joyce McKean. Grade VIII. (Pinal).-Credit: Mavis Winifred Becroft, Mary Hilary Sprague. Pass: Theresa Dorothy Flynn (singing), Theresa Dorothy Plynn. Audrey Newborn, Betty Joy Taylor. Grade VII. (Advanced).-Distinction: Olive Carey. Credit: Margaret Ariell, Shirley Bacon, Kathleen Brown, Rosamond Caradus (singing). Garth Eady, Margaret Elaine Gerrand (singing). Pass: Jean Buchanan, Alberta L. Coleman, Joyce Crooke, Doreen Lineen, Patricia Lord, Olwcn Madden, Colleen Mccracken, Robert Lincoln Rees, Betty V. Rotherham, Graham V. Wallace. Grade VI. (Intermediate). —Distinction: Julian Lee. Credit: Rhonda Lyall Batiks, Florence Kathleen Child (singing), Lorraine Tyler (violin). Pass. Margaret Atkin. Margaret Clarke, Paddy Duthie, John Eyles. Patricia Phyllis Eyre, Nancy Greville, Russell Jackson, Norma Valerie Kay, Johe E. Mallett, Barbara Almee Swarbrick. Grade V. (Higher).—Credit: June Barson (singing), Pamela Batts, Norma Elise Coe, Lois Crawford, Yvonne Cleo Cummins, A. Howie, Noellne Beryl McMillan, Jocelyn Pascoe, Beverley Rudd, Betty Splro (singing). Pass: Margaret Blyth, Ella Bolton, Joy Brookbanks, Patricia Davys, Bernadette Donnelly, Merline Dunning, Dalice Eaddy, Joe Isbister, Clare Jackson. Mona Klnley (singing), Fred McClymont (violin), Glen L. Nicholson, Winnlfred Penman, Alan Howe. Alison Young. Grade IV. (Lower).—Distinction: Esme Chatfleld (singing), Maida Stubbs. Credit: Nancy Hawk, Pamela Maclndoe, Alison Simmers. Pass: Effiie Alpe, lan K. Aplin, Shirley Bacon (singing), Florence Banyard, Dahvys Buchan, Howard Leslie Bull, June Carver, Margaret Clemow. Trevor Cox, Peggy Eustace, Ellen Eyles, Alison Garland, Audrey Greenwood, Dorothy Mackie, Marie McCabe (violin). Zelle Elizabeth Meek, Llla Murphy, Helen Jean Sexton, Janet Smyth Gloria Spencer, Patricia Stanaway, Enid Ngaire Vickerman, Doreen Cordellia Wiggins, Lance Windsor, Barbara Wylie.

Grade 111. (Transitional). —Distinction: Beverley Bartle. Credit: Josephine Egan, Wallace Gallagher, Mary Gardiner, Blyth Harper, Audrey Henshaw. June Newcombe, Pauline Romain, Janet Smyth, Russell James Taberner. Pass: Doris E. Allen. Rita Gwynneth Appleton. Millicent Arlington, Marjorie Barbarich, Noela Brennan, Lilllas Burrows, Joeelyn Clarke, Barbara Dawn, Muriel Falcon, Edith Fenner, Joeelyn Headdey. Wilma Grace Herring, Brian Howlett, Raymond E. Jones, Pamela Kelly. David Kronfeld, Molly Leathern, Barbara Mackay, Beverley Marshall. Heather Craig Murray. Gresham Alexander Poole, Pauline Rasmussen, Cynthia Roberts. Helen Ross. Faith Sheffield, Lawrence Smith. Phyllis Watson, Beryl Whitmore, Joy Wilson, Nonle Wood.

Grade n. (Elementary).—Distinction: David Ranken Shirreff Galbralth, Helen Maslen. Margaret Hamilton Williams. Credit: Clifford Raymond Barnett. Joeelyn le Fleming Ctaurchouse, Leonle Donald, William - Lyall Ewart, Judith Greville. Lesley Jerred. Shirley Johnson, Yvonne Jones, Russell Kerr, Nola Lock, Gertrude Muir, Audrey Trenwith. Jor Williams. Noleen Wilson. Pass: Thelma Barnes, Rachel Bell-Booth, Murray Belcher, June Bavaird, Clarice Boyle, Wallace Brown, Son la Burgess (violin), Dorothy Buswcll (singing), Peter Robert Butcher, Keith Cameron, Jacqueline Collier, Shirley Dale, Irene Davidson, Ruth De-Loree, Patricia Ann Donaldson, Xaxier Fenton, Beryl Goad, Ronald Grace, Diane Blanche Harris, Brenda Ireland Harrison, Judith Hellaby, Joan O. Holland, Betty Howard (violin). Prudence Hudson, James Keith Jonkers, Margaret Somervllle Lane, Kathleen Rose Llttlejohn. Marsalie Macfarlane, Janet Mackay, Molly Lyndle Malone, Cynthia May. Joan Metge, Leslie Mills, Judith Mullan, Cecilia Parry, Fay Edith Palmer, lan Porter (violin), Gaye Rainger, Theodore Paul Roland (violin), Esme Rotherham. Marjorle Kathcrlne Russell, Norma Stead, June Stubbs, June Sutor, Barbara Twiname, Allsa Wallace, Jean Watson, Roma Watts. Elizabeth Wildman. Grade I. (Primary).—Distinction: Valerie Howes, Margaret Macßean, Ann Patricia Owen. Credit: Barbara Claire Adams, John Alexander Anderson, Janet Banks, Richard A. Burns, Margaret Carr, Henry Charles Christie, Judith Mary Hudson. Anthony Kaye, Hilda Levin, Joy Meikle, Patsy Miller, Rex Montgomery, Betty McGrath (violin), Richie James Poule, Coral Ridllng, Lucy Roberts, Montgomery James Thompson. Pass: Hilda Mary Astley. Patricia Betty Ballantyne, Valda Bazeley, Doreen Beeson. Audrey Bung, Mary Brosnan (violin), Beverley Clayton Brown. Molly Coleman (violin). Beryl Curel. Wilma Davenport. Lesley Daykin (singing). Malcolm McLeod Donnell, Francelle Eady. Jill Farquhar, Celine Fbgarty. Valerie Furaiss, Bruce Gardiner, Judith Halford. Miney Hfcrvey, Enid Hawkins, Marie Hazard. Geoffrey Hill. Patrick Hogan. Mervyn Francis Hynes. Eric Noel Jonkers (violin). Bob Lane, lan Macßean, Dora MeCrone, Terence Meakin, Ruth Monk, Joy Montgomerie, Shirley Rae Moselen, Evan Murdoch, Edna Norrlsh. Lan Lawrence O'Hara, Michael O'Hara, Justine PeppereU. Adele Patricia Phelan, Gresham Alexander Poole (singing), Richie James Poole (singing), Victor Rotherham, Barbara Smith, Allan Hartley Steele, Era Steere, Margaret Stewart, Peter Tattersall (violin), Pamela Thwaites. Elaine Rae Williams. Preliminary-—Catherine Rose Barry, Doreen Mary Boon. Kenneth Brackenridge (violin), Marlene Buchanan, Margaret Conway, Athol Hilton Donnell. Christopher Franklin Gaze, Dean Gregory June Thelma Maud Kevey, Margaret Locker, Joyce Loomb, Audrey Pezaro, Louise Mary Rose, Barbara Smith. Isobel Smith. Colleen Tate (violin), MolUe Ellis Watt, Ivan Wills, OUve Wills