Brass Bands Contest
HE New Zealand Brass Bands Contest will begin at Christchurch this Sunday (February 21), and from then until it ends the following Saturday there will be regular broadcasts from NZBS stations of results and selections from performances of bands and soloists. The first of these will be heard on Sunday afternoon, when 3YA will broadcast from 2 o'clock selections from the Hymn Test. Other broadcasts from 3YA_ will include results throughout the week as they become available, C and D grade selections on Monday and Wednesday, and A grade selections on Tuesday and Thursday. On Saturday afternoon a description of the quicksteps will be broadcast from 2 o'clock. (
Listeners in other parts of the country will hear results several times a Gay from YA and YZ stations, and winning performances each evening from YA stations. The first link for results will be at 6.40 p.m. this Sunday. From Monday, February 22, to Saturday, February 27, results will be broadcast at 6.15 a.m. (after the News from YA stations only), 7.18 a.m. (after the Weather Forecast), and 8.10 a.m. (after the News). These morning broadcasts will cover results from the night before. Broadcasts at 12.33 p.m. and 7.0 p.m. will generally cover results of solo contests, and there will be a final link at 11.15 p.m. (from YA stations and 4YZ) for evening results. On the same days YA stations will link for 20 minutes from 9.30 p.m. to broadcast recordings of winning performances-hymn test winners (Monday), first B and € grade tests (Tuesday), first A grade test (Wednesday), second B and C grade tests (Thursday), second A_ grade test (Friday), and D grade hymn ond test (Saturday). Winning soloists will be included throughout the week as they become available, and Championship winners will be included in the Friday or Saturday broadcasts if they are not already winners of the A grade second test. Stations 3 and 4YZ will broadcast winning performances at other times during the week, and recordings of these will also be heard during the week from 1 and 2YZ and X stations, where the performances are by bands within the areas covered by these stations. Otherwise these stations will play recordings of winning performances later. Commercial stations will broadcast these recordings in their Sunday morning band sessions.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 5
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382Brass Bands Contest New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 5
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