Pilot, Teacher, Clarinet Player
AN American now living in Auckland is a schoolmaster in the daytime and a broadcaster at night. His name is George Hopkins. He lectures on Music and Social Studies at three Auckland schools and is a member of the Auckland Studio Orchestra (conducted by Oswald Cheesman) which is heard on Sunday evenings im 1ZB’s programme Music at Nine. In 1924 George Hopkins began to study the clarinet and five years later joined the Youngstown (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra. Later he took a Bachelor of Science degree, specialising in Musical Education, and lectured at various American colleges until the outbreak of
war when he became a pilot in the United States Marine Corps. He served in the ‘Solomons and Bougainville ,and spent his leave in’ Auckland where he met Helen Gray who then played first violin in the 1ZB Orchestra. They were married, and after the war George and his wife went to America. There he studied for an advanced music degree. On completion of study George and Helen Hopkins came back to New Zealand to continue their musical careers. Now both play in Oswald Cheesman’s Orchestra. George has also formed a woodwind quartet which broadcasts frequently; it will be heard next from 1YC at 7.36 p.m. on August 24.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 24
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212Pilot, Teacher, Clarinet Player New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 24
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