Music for a Wedding
()CCASIONALLY the NZBS receives an unusual request. As the result of a recent call for assistance, both the members of the National Orchestra of the NZBS, and of the Wellington Water--siders’ Silver Band, played music-from a distance-for the recent royal double wedding in Tonga. Early this year the Tongan Government, through its ‘New Zealand. agents in Auckland, asked if ‘the Tongan national anthem could be recorded. The request was accompanied by a piano score of the anthem, The NZBS arranged.for orchestral and band "parts to be written from it, and the recordings were made at 2YA. The master disc was sent to Australia for pressing, and copies sent to Tonga for play‘ing during the marriage celebrations,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 11
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120Music for a Wedding New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 11
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