TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14972, 20 May 1914, Page 5

TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

LOCAL EXAMINATIONS

PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS

AND MEDALS

There was a large attendance in tho Art Gallery yesterday afternoon, whon the presentation of diplomas, medals, and certificates won by competitors in the local examinations of the Trinity College Of Music (London), took place. In the absence from Christchurch of £ho chairman of the local committee, the Right Rev. Bishop J. J. Grimes, D.D., the Mayor (Mr H. Holland) presided.

* Tho report of tho local committee, which was read by Mx Davis Hunt, expressed gratification that tho Trinity College of Music examinations were so well supported that the year showed a decided increase in tho number of students entered, and a beliof that the work dono by tto candidates was proving year by year to bo moro artistic and "thorough, as was shown by the jarge number of candidates who obtained honours, and tho small number of failures. Tho Governor's gold medal, given annually by his Excellency the Earl of Liverpool to the best associate in New Zealand in,the higher examination for diplomas, had been won by Miss Amy Gilligan, A.T.C.L., of Oamaru, who had entered at this Contre. Of the six exhibitions granted every year by the College in the practical examinations to Now Zealand, Tasmania, and Canada, two in each division of the senior, intermediate, and junior grades, one of six guineas was won by Miss Eileen Carter in the junior division. The report stated that 246 candidates had entered for the examinations during the year, and detailed the results. In connexion with tho winning of ono of tho exhibitions given by the College, by the local Centre, the report mentioned that tho complete scheme of these exhibitions, now in its tenth year, embraced the whole Empire, and that 620 exhibitions had been awarded, of a total value of £13-10. More than 30.000 candidates entered annually for the examinations, since the establishment of which the College had examined more than 500,000 candidates. Before presenting tho certificates and diplomas, tho Mayor said that the Society of Musicians had decided to offer a prize to encourage tho study of music composition and theory. _ Ho was_ of the opinion that people did not think sufficiently for themselves in New Zealand, and the Society was desirous of bringing out that local talent in regard to composition whicTi was latent in our musicians; He hoped that the efforts of the Society in that direction would be abundantly rewarded, and in conclusion he congratulated tho_ winners of medals and diplomas on their success. Tho medals, diplomas, and certificates wero then presented by the Mayor, amongst the recipients being:—Miss Amy Gilligau, A.T.C.L. (associate pianisto), the Governor's gold medal; Miss Doris S. L. Webb (higher local honours), tho local Centre gold medal: Miss Dorothea Harrop (senior honours), silver medal; and Miss Eileen Carter (junior honours), ; bronze medal. During the afternoon tho following programme of music was performed by some of tho successful candidates i— Miss Amy Gilligan, first and second Movements Sonata, Op. 22, in B Flat (Beethoven); Miss Doris Webb, Adagio Melto, from Sonata. Op. 10, No. 1 (Beethoven); Miss Dorothea Harj-op. Allegro Molto from Sonata in .C Minor (Mozart); Miss Eileen'Carter, Allegro in C (Wilin); Miss Greta, Cadenhead, A.T.C.L. (associate violinist), a violin solo.