School Festival
jes DOW (right) conducted the girls’ choir in the Hutt Valley Technical College Music Festival, excerpts from which were scheduled for broadcast by 2YA at 9.30 p.m. this Wednesday, December 1. The Music Festival is an annual event, held at the Wellington Town Hall, and this week’s programme was recorded at the 1954 festival. The performers were a massed choir of 370 voices, a girls’ choir of 200, a massed orchestra of 130, a smaller orchestra of 50 players, and a brass band of 30. David Sell, director of music at the College, conducted the massed choir and orchestras, James Dow the girls’ choir,. and W, Les. Francis the band. Over the years the Hutt Valley Technical College has built up a reputation for its music which places it among the best in the country,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 802, 3 December 1954, Page 22
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137School Festival New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 802, 3 December 1954, Page 22
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