Unusual Musical Presentations At Whakatane
A remarkable musical feat was performed by Mr Sauni Kuresa, Samoa’s leading musician and Sev-enth-Day Adventist Youth Leader, at a gathering of Adventist church members and friends at Whakatane on Saturday night. Mr Kuresa is a radio musician and teacher of music, and “plays anything.” His audience fully appreciated his performance of the seemingly impossible, an instrumental duet of pleasing harmony played on two cornets at once.
He is probably the first to do this in New Zealand. Mr Kuresa’s skill was demonstrated in 1948 when U.N.O. granted self-government to Samoa and a competition for a national anthem was held. Fifteen entries were received. Kuresa’s composition “The Banner of Freedom” rendered by the Apia Adventist choir and band was chosen as the National Anthem. Marie, one of Kuresa’s twin daughters and nurse at Waikato Hospital, sang the anthem in Samoan and in English to her father’s piano accompaniment.
Greetings from Fiji were brought by Saimone Vula, former sergeantmajor in the Fijian Army and now Adventist Youth Leader in FijiVula made a strong appeal to the youth to dedicate their lives to God and humanity in these perplexing days.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 26, 26 April 1950, Page 5
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