High Honour For N.Z. Composer

Chronicle (Levin), 16 September 1949, Page 5

High Honour For N.Z. Composer

v WELLINGTON. Bent. 15. A work bv the New Zealand composer, J. T>ean Goffin. of Timaru, has been selec+ed ns the tesf piece for this venr's Belle Vue contest for Brass B n n d s — n cnnte«t hebl nnnuallv in Manchester for the past f>0 vears and in which lend'orr Fnglish bands tnko part Word nf this has renched the comnoser 's father, Brigadier H. O. Goffin. head of the Snlvation Armv band work in New ZealawbTt is a great hononr for New Zealand. he says, becanse on no nrevious oocasion has mnsic for that purpose been accepted from a comnoser ontside England. The work is ontitled "Rhapsodv in Brass" and was written when the comnoser wns anred • 25 and was serving in the Middle East with the Second N.Z.E.E. The first half of it was written in Swria in 1942 and comnletion in^errunted bv the ruflh to the Western Eesert to counter "Rrjmmeli's drivo into Ew^t. The fnnl nlleafo v-nq written at Mandi in oue week-end. The narts were cnripd out and the work nerform od a b+tle oT*"r a week , Int.er at the "Musie Eor All'' Club in ICairo, by the Fourth Brigade Band nn* i der fhe composer. '