N.Z. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24912, 27 June 1946, Page 4

N.Z. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

METHOD OF APPOINTING ORGANISER MUSICIANS* COMPLAINT »>.A.) AUCKLAND, June 26. A statement that the appointment of Mr Andersen Tyrer to organise and train the new National Symphony Orchestra was purely political was made by the president of the "Auckland Chamber Music Society (Professor A. C. Keys) this morning. He said the appointment had been done in quite the wrong way, in that the position was not advertised, and therefore Mr Tyrer got the job without competition. The conductor of the Auckland Choral Society and the Auckland Symphony "Orchestra (Mr Colin Muston) said the only grievance of musicians was that the appointment .was not advertised. At the same time, he did not think anyone in Australia or New Zealand would have accepted it. He said Mr Tyrer was a competent man, and so far as his appointment was concerned, musicians in New Zealand had no axe to grind. The president of the Auckland Society of Music Teachers (Mr James Leighton) said as far as he could judge Mr Tyrer had been appointed to train the orchestra, and he thought that after that had been done an endeavour would still be made to obtain guest conductors.