NAPIER COMPETITIONS.
(By TeloEmph— SpeciaJ Correspondent. , , Napier, August 24. Mr. Robert Parker, judge of the musical portion of the Napier.'Competitions, in an interview, said: " ~ "I was hotli surprised. and very much pleased with the choral music. JS'one .6E the solo singing reached a; very high standard," but this is hardly to be expected. Soino performers, hovevev, were very pleasing, aifd had really studied their work. 1 can only.'urge singers■ to.. give, more attention to enunciation and pro-, nunciatiou. Was the expression ui) to your,expectations? the reporter asked. . , "Iu many cases," replied the • judge, "we had much more of tlie letter than the spirit. Too many young singers havo not. ydtienco to study. They-rush into singing • ou the public, platform . when they ought to be tearing. ABC lam sorVy to say that what pianoforte-music there was, so far as it had gone, , was, with the exception of the. little children, very unsatisfactory." ■ . .'. , :V Coming to something he did not approve of, Mr. Parker said: "I, certainly' think that the Harry' Lander'; competition should not* be at all. I thought it entirely out.of place in a .competition of this kind, and it' detracts from the educational value of the thing. I also think that things like and bugle class, and'oven the "brass quartet, excellent as all were, in their way, would he more properly included in a brass band : contest." ■~ Mr. Parker; is strongly in favour of the establishment o£ a municipal orchestra in Napier. ' *'.'■'■' , ■ .■ Napior, Aufust 23. The musical and elocutionary. competitions were brought* to a conclusion in the Theatre .Royal to-night; The following were the results:—Meteo soprano solo: Mrs. Trusc'r' Tytler, Blenheim,, 1; Mrs. J. Campbell. Napier, 2. Piano (open class): Miss F. K. Whitely, Napier, ,, only competitor, 1. Sight reading, vocal, gentlemen: W. C. Sparling, Hastings, 1; Pecil Prime, Napier, 2. Sight reading, pinno, ladies: Miss F. E. Whitely, only competitor, 1. .'.*"•
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 904, 25 August 1910, Page 5
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313NAPIER COMPETITIONS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 904, 25 August 1910, Page 5
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