BAND CONTEST.
TKBT SELECTIONS. iMOCIATIOS TM.IOBBAM.) WELLINGTON, November 21. The selections of tho test music for the New Zealand championship band contest to be held in Wellington in February aire announced. In the A grade the two test pieces will be Wagner's "Meistcrsingers" and JSlgar's "The Severn Suite," which was the championship test at the Crystal Palace contest at Home last September, when the famaus Foden's ban 4 gained flrpt honourp. "The Severn Suite," which is dedicated by the composer "to his friend George Bernard Shaw," has not so far been performed in New Zealand. The A- grade jparch will be J- Ord Hume's "BB and CF." The B grade selections are "Hamlet," by Ambroise Thomas, and Eimmer's arrangement of Mendelssohn's works. The march will be Ord Hume's "Flying Squad." The entries are very satisfactory and comprise 13 A grade and 22 B grade bands. For the hymn test 28 bands have entered.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20092, 22 November 1930, Page 7
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153BAND CONTEST. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20092, 22 November 1930, Page 7
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