GRAND OLD MAN.
Wellington Musician With Great Record. Congratulatory messages from many parts of .New Zealand were received on Saturday by Mr Robert Parker, C.M.G., the “grand old man” of the. musical life of Wellington, when he celebrated his ninetieth birthday. The story of his career is almost an account of the history of music in Wellington. In 1878, the year he arrived in Wellington, he was appointed organist ami choirmaster of St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, and that post he retains to this day, which must stand as a unique record in New Zealand. In that year the first Wellington Orchestral Society -was formed, and w ithin a year or two Mr Parker succeeded Mr Angelo Forrest as conductor. Under his capable hands the orchestra continued through the eighties, and for th e Exhibition of 1885, held on the old drill shed site behind the present State Fire Office Building, the society furnished the principal musical attraction with Mr Parker on the conductor’s stand.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 333, 14 January 1937, Page 3
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163GRAND OLD MAN. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 333, 14 January 1937, Page 3
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