DISTRICT judges for the "Mobil Song Quest" this year will include a number of new people well known in musical circles. Three of them are seen above. Eileen Reed (left), one of the 1XN judges, has for the past five years been music specialist at the Girls' High! School at Whangarei. She is a member of the executive of the Whangarei branch of the Community Arts Service. Grace Rutherford, a judge at 2XG, has been prominent in musical circles in Gisborne for many years as a soprano and a violinist and cellist. She has often been heard from 2XG. Last year she coached all the principals for the local production of "Rose Marie." Ernest Drake, one of the judges at 1ZB, studied in England, where he did concert work in the 1920s. Back in New Zealand, he taught singing in Dunedin for more than 30 years. Since he returned from another visit to Britain in 1951 he has lived in Auckland. He is the father of the well-known baritone Bryan Drake.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 930, 7 June 1957, Page 18
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171DISTRICT judges for the "Mobil Song Quest" this year will include a number of new people well known in musical circles. Three of them are seen above. Eileen Reed (left), one of the 1XN judges, has for the past five years been music specialist at the Girls' High! School at Whangarei. She is a member of the executive of the Whangarei branch of the Community Arts Service. Grace Rutherford, a judge at 2XG, has been prominent in musical circles in Gisborne for many years as a soprano and a violinist and cellist. She has often been heard from 2XG. Last year she coached all the principals for the local production of "Rose Marie." Ernest Drake, one of the judges at 1ZB, studied in England, where he did concert work in the 1920s. Back in New Zealand, he taught singing in Dunedin for more than 30 years. Since he returned from another visit to Britain in 1951 he has lived in Auckland. He is the father of the well-known baritone Bryan Drake. New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 930, 7 June 1957, Page 18
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