Dominion’s Oldest Band
BAND music figures prominently in the 1YA programmes for the coming week. On Sunday evening, August 18, there is to be a programme by British bands, opening at 8.30 and continuing until 10.0 and on the following Thursday evening there will be a studio performance by New Zealand’s oldest band, the Auckland Artillery Band, which this year is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Old as it is, this band still shows no signs of diminished vigour and under the leadership of Wynne Smith it carried off the hymn championship at the last
contest in Wellington. Its standing in hymn-playing, indeed, is to-day as high as that which it in the quickstep contests of a decade or more ago when, under the leadership of Captain T. P. Laffey, it carried off the quickstep championship on many occasions, On Thursday next the band will be under the baton of its new leader, H. Christensen, who has been deputy-leader for the past four years. For him this is but another step up in a long association
with bands throughout New Zealand. For example, he first joined the old Ashburton Temperance Band in 1911 and after serving abroad from 19141919 he joined the Woolston Band, under R. J. Estall, as a euphonium player. Since 1922 he has been connected with the Auckland Artillery Band. Two items on the band’s programme on Thursday will be of more than usual interest to listeners. One will be the playing of the hymn by Dykes, " Fierce Raged the Tempest." ~-his will be of interest first because of the reputation the band has in hymn-playing, secondly, because the arrangement is a new one by Mr. Christensen himself. Again, the programme will include an unpublished cornet duet, " The Trumpet Serenaders," by Mr. Christensen. This work was to have been presented in public some time ago, but the music was lost at the last minute and had to be re-written subsequently from the original score. It will therefore be heard for the first time from the 1YA studio next Thursday. The studio concert will begin at 9.15 and will continue until 10.0p.m., with a recorded interlude at 9.30.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 8
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359Dominion’s Oldest Band New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 8
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