TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 11

TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT

Next Thursday and Friday evenings, in tho Burt Hall, a programme of exceptionally high standard will be given by the school choir, dramatic society, and combined military band and orchestra. In the first part of the programme tho choir of 120 voices will render a number of songs, including Scottish national airs, specially arranged with extra parts, and songs by such wellknown writers as John Ireland, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Edward German, Granville Bantock, and others. The school orchestra, under the leadership of Mr T. Vernon Griffiths, and consisting of about 100 players who are all Technical College pupils, will play several popular overtures. A notable feature of this part of the programme will be the performance of the smaller instrumental groups, whose efforts at the recent Dunedin Competitions won favourable mention from the judge. The last half of the evening will be devoted to the presentation of Naomi Mitchison’s ‘ Nix-nonght-nothing,’ a delightful fantasy, written in flowing verse, with the actors happily playing at kings and wizards rather than playing them. Very effective lighting arid a clever suggestion of the eight scones by the use of curtains and ent-ont properties in a decorative manner, will make the play a memorable one.