MASTERTON COMPETITIONS SOCIETY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10586, 18 March 1912, Page 3

MASTERTON COMPETITIONS SOCIETY

The following arc the tost pieces chosen by the judge (Mr C. 3*. iiao—- ' yortz) for the vocal and elocutionary sections at the annual competitions commencing an Tuesday, 9th July. ■ The instrumental tost pieces are not yet to hand from the musical .judge, •Mr Harold Cregson, of Auckland:— Soprano solo; "Canoe Song," (Mallinscm), highoft key; Mezzo-soprano solo "Rose Softly Blooming," in il tSpohr) •Boosoy Album; Contralto, "Still as tho .Night." in B-flat (Bohni); Tenor solo, "lehabod," (Tschaikowsky), Tenor' Album, Boosey ; Baritone solo, "Son of -Mine," (Freebooter Songs, bv Wallace); .Bass song, "The Wanderer," (Schubert), ''lmperial Edition Bass Songs) ; Vocal duet, ladies' voices, "Across the -Still Lagoon,'' (Logo). any key; Vocal duet, gentlemen's voices, "The Cendarnie;.," (Offenbach); Vocal quaru'tte, mixed voice.-, "Sweet and Low," i.Barnby ; vo;al duet, mixed voices, "Breathe, Divine Delight," (Alletsen) any key ; Church Choir contesc, test pieces, A. anthem "I Waited for the Lord' from Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise," H. hymn "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Sav" d)r •Dykes). C, chorus, "Breath, Breath,") .(Mac'farren). J ELOCUTTOXARY. _ Recitation, ladies, any age, "The Ocean" (Byron), 3rd. Gth, 7th and Bth Stanzas from Pertwee's "Riciters' Treasury of Verse"; Recitation, gentlemen, "Napoleon's Tomb," (Ingersoll); Recitation, girls under 15,' I "Breath, Breath, Breath," (Lord Tennyson); 'Recitation, girls under 11, I "My Shadow," from "A Child's Gar-' den of Verso," (R. L. Stevenson; Re-' citation, boys under 15, "Drake's Drum," from "The Island Race," (by Henry Newbolt); Recitation, boys under 11, "Little Boy Blue," (Eugene 1 Field), from Pert\voe"s "Reciters' I Treasury of Verse" ; Shakespearian re- ' citation, gentlemen, "The Seven Ages of Man," from "As You Like It," , Act 11., scene 7; Shakeseparian dia-, logue, lady and gentleman, "Rosalind j and Orlanda," from "As You Like) It," Act lII.', Scene II.; Prepared! reading, "Death of Marie Antoinette".; (Edmund .Burke) ;' prepared speed), j lady or gentleman, subject "Competitions" ; Essay, adults, subject, "Our Noble English Tongue" ; Essay, juniors under IG, subject "School."