Vernon Griffiths
‘HERE are few aspects of music which have not been touched on by | Dr. Vernon Griffiths, Dean of the Fac‘ulty of Music at Canterbury College, Christchurch. In addition to his work in schools, churches, amateur music groups and the University, he has taken a keen and active interest in. brass band work. He has given a number of public lectures at Canterbury College, with illustrations by the Woolston Band, to emphasise the importance of the brass band movement. His short cantata, Peace and War, written for chorus and brass band, has had numerous performances in New Zealand, and is now being published in England. He has also been associated with, and has conducted, the National Orchestra. To celebrate the Royal Visit to New Zealand he composed a "Festival March," which was included in the organ recital by Dr. V. E. Galway that preceded the Royal Concert by the National Orchestra last January. This work is heard in a programme of Vernon Griffiths’s compositions in the series Music by New Zealand Composers. In the same programme are several pieces of his church music performed by the Christchurch Cathedral Choir directed by C. Foster Browne (organist). They are excerpts from his Missa Simplex, Missa Innocentium, and Evening Service in D Major. The programme also includes two songs, "Binkie and Me,"
and "A Boy’s Song"; and the part-song, "The Rolling English Road," performed by the Christchurch Harmonic Society. Vernon Griffiths was born in England in 1894 and educated at Norwich School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Following service in the First World War he was organist and choirmaster at Pembroke College and later senior music master at Downside School and St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury. In 1927 he became Lecturer in Music at Christchurch Training College; later he was director of music at King Edward Tech- | nical College, Dunedin; and in 1942 he was appointed a Professor of Music in the University of New Zealand.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 29
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322Vernon Griffiths New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 29
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