MUSIC PRIZE AWARD
Christchurch Winner
Dominion Special Service.
’ DUNEDIN, June 20. The Otago University Council today made the first award of the Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music, the winner being D. G. Lilburn, Christchurch, and the runner-up, H. G. Luscombe, Auckland. This prize is open for competition among past and present students of the University of New Zealand, but no winner is eligible to compete again for five years. The value of the prize is £25. Awards are made for musical composition in a form prescribed by the examiners, the structure for 1944 being a prelude (or fantasia) and fugue for either piano or organ. Each competitor is required to forward his entry under nom de plume. The judges were Dr. V. E. Galway and Mr. W. J. Morrell, chancellor of Otago University. Dr. Galway commented that Mr. Lilburn’s work wag. of a high order of merit and that it was real and vital with a modern outlook and showed originality of treatment.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 226, 21 June 1944, Page 6
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164MUSIC PRIZE AWARD Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 226, 21 June 1944, Page 6
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