A SPLENDID COMBINATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 2

A SPLENDID COMBINATION

BLIND BAND CONCERT. Next Tuesday night should see the Municipal Hall filled for the concert of the Blind Institute Band. The programme, musical and vocal, is one which will immediately appeal for its excellence. The Masterton Band and the Rotary and Optimist clubs will assist at the concert, tickets for which may be obtained at Mr H. E. Pithers shop and from members of the Women’s National Welfare League or the Rotary Club. The prices for admission —adults 2s, children Is —are within the reach of all and should immediately appeal. A contemporary wrote as follows of a concert recently held in the North: —“The first appearance of the Blind Institute Band fulfilled a dual purpose. It provided superlative entertainment for the crowd which packed the Town Hall and it was a joyous and wholehearted expression of triumph ■ over crushing adversity. The Band’s renditions not only of spirited martial music, but of far more difficult selections performed in perfect rhythm, and an amazing delicacy of tone control, excited the admiration of the audience which was not slow to respond with enthusiastic applause. The perfect rendition of difficult passages drew rounds of applause.”