TRINITY EXAMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1030, 22 July 1930, Page 14

TRINITY EXAMS

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES MUSIC AND ELOCUTION TESTS The following is a list of successful candidates in the Trinity College of Music, London, practical tests recently conducted in Auckland by Dr. J. E Borland, F.R.C.0.: MUSIC Diplomas.—Licentiate. pass: Betty Lamont-Gurr, Mary O. Murphy, Constance McNeil, Nellie North, Phyllis Purchase, Joyce G Smith, Betty M. Tinline, Moira M. Tinline. Associate pass: Dorothy J. Brobergr, Blanche Collard (singing), Mary G. Foley, Beryl N. Jenkin, Joyce Mullins, Dorothy MacKenzie, Margaret J. Young. Higher Local.—Honours: Lenore Pigott. Pass: Gladys Constance, Connie Krause, Mary Man nix, Loma McLeod, Doreen O'Leary, Lois B. Shortland. Senior. —Honours: Patrick Towsey. Pass: Annie F. Atkins (violin), Phyllis Barrell, Joyce Bennett, Valerie Blackmore, Una M. Cleave, Helen Cooper, Iris Coupland, Lconie G. D'O, Margaret L. Douglas, Nesta M. East, Catherine Ellis, May M. Frost, Tresna Godkin, Gloria V. Hill, Rachel G. Holland, Nancy R. Jones, Marjorie Kelly, Fredda Ker (violin), Cherrie Multrus, Peggy McAvady, Blanche Mackenzie (blind), George J. O’Gorman, Joe Pelham (violin), Joan Phillpott, Erin Power, Bertha Rout, Joyce W. Sayers, Pauline Spender, Betty D. Thorburn, Patricia Ward, Margaret Watson, Cyril Young (violin), Marion Blundell. Intermediate.—Honours: Violet Hingley, Joan Strickland. Pass: Barry Biiton, Bertha Blaikie, Eric Boyd (violin), Adela L. Cant, Joyce Carrington, Hilda Cooper, Patricia Hassett, Iris Henderson, Kathleen M. Henry, May Hiscocks, Jessie Lang, Joy Lodder, Gabriel Marshall (violin), Nancy A. Mitchell, Muriel Monaghan, Eileen Mountain, Agnes G. McCrone, Mary O’Connell (violin), Betty R. Thompson, Myrtle Vause. Junior.—Honours: Helen Cameron, Dorothy A. Franchi. Eileen Pcnk. Pass: Marie Armstrong, Florence Bennett, Elinor Browne, Doreen Chandler, Rita Corbett, Joan Egginton, Ruth Evans, Desmond Fountain, Nellie Gilray, Sylvia M. Goldsworthy, Betty I. Goulstone, Signa Hilt, Vivian K. Jacobs, Lionel Johns (’cello), Keith J. L. Jones, Marjory Kelly (singing), Jason Kelsey (violin), Mary Kendall, Olive Ludgate, Mary Mahoney, Joyce I. Montgomery, Frances MacKenzie (violin), Kathleen Nerheny, Doncee O’Brien (singing), Betty Ockelford, Eugene O’Connor, Patricia R. Oldbury, Wilson Rainey, Kathleen Roberts, Molly A. Smith, Alice F. Stewart (violin), Rona V. Tee, Leone Thomas, Violet Ward, Audrey F. Waugh, William S. Young. Preparatory.—Honours: Nancy Francis, Olive Harris (violin); Shirley F. Long. Pass: John Ainsworth (violin), Marjory Allen, Mollie Brady, Beatrice Bremer, Nora Brighouse (singing), John Buchanan, June Clarkson, Edmund J. Clews, Rita Coupe, Charleg Coward, Howard A. Crafts, Ethel Darlington, Lucy Darlington, Joan E. De Berg, Molly l>tncan, Mary Elliott, Lilian Fielding, Kathleen Ford, Jack Fountain, Dorothy G. Fowler, Nora Fraser, Ada A. George, Roland M. Gerrard, Hazel Hawkes, Frances Hiscocks (violin), Derek T. Hoskins, Nancy Kay-Stratton, Frank Jones (violin), Kathleen Little, Joan Lloyd, Thomas Mahoney, Dorothy Malcolm, Irene D. Marshal], Edna Metcalfe, Esme L. Morris, Lottie Mcßride, Josephine McGregor, Margaret P. McShane, Len Peckham. Cyril C. C. Pellew, Ruth Plowman, Jean Ross, Stella A. Roy, lan Russell, Laurette Russell, Beatrice Seagar, Jack Shanahan (violin), Josephine Spick, Joy R. Stewart, Mary Tate, William D. Thomas, Hilda M. Thompson, Murray Ward, Margaret Wilkie. First Steps.—Pass; Audrey Anderson, Gwen Beare, Ursula M. Briscoe (violin), Joan Brookes, Marjorie Butler, Jack Carson, Joan M. Davis, Marjorie Fenton, Patricia Flanagan, Rona F. Gilmore, Margaret S. Graham, Gabriel Hodgson, Margaret Holehouse, Elsie Hopkins, Betty Keen, Margaret Kerr (violin), Dororthy Kindred (violin), Doris Leyland Nancy Martin, Emily C. Morris, Rona Munns, Dan McCarthy, Yvonne McMahon, Valmai A. Neilsen, lone Oxenhanx (violin), George Page, Lorna Peisker, Lorna Plowman, Louisa R. Ray, Doreen Shorter, Nina Stone, Violet i Thorpe, Ernest Watson, Yvonne Wyllie ELOCUTION Diploma.—Associate, pass: Nora J. Varley Iludson. Higher Local.—Honours: James R. Ferguson. Pass; Ruth D. Gourdie, Joan C. Ross. Senior—Honours: Gwen W. McXaughton. Pass: Melzie Johnston, Myra Kemble, Ruth Kirkbridc, Mary Matthews, Mary G. Pilkington, Doreen Sanford, Mrs. Jane Tate. Intermediate.—Pass: Rita D. Grinter. Junior.—Pass: Alice P. Carr, Beryl J. Dickson, Betty C. M. Medwin. Preparatory.—Honours: Isabel M. Henderson. Pass: Nora Hanson, Mary Y Mayall, Patiicia Stanton.

ROYAL ACADEMY TESTS

INCREASE IN ENTRIES In the Auckland district, the entries in the practical examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music show an increase this year of nearly 100 candidates compared with last year. This year the number is 404. compared with 30S last year. The tests commenced yesterday morning in the Pitt Street Methodist Church. Ur. R. o. Beachcroft. M.A., is conducting the examinations. He has a wide experience as conductor, performer. lecturer and judge, and also in orchestral concert work and in mass singing. His work is now mainly that of examiner. Dr. .Beachcroft received his musical education as an exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music, and as an organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford. There, he graduated as Doctor of Music. Tlie entries in the present Auckland examinations are made up as follow: Primary section, 99; elementary section, 84; higher and lower groups, 113; intermediate and advanced. 59; final section, 7; licentiate examination, 28: rudimentary examination. 14.