Minstrels
an HE MINSTRELS (right) are an Auckland choral group formed in 1950 by the conductor, Harry Woolley, to broadcast light music. In the past seven years they have broadcast more than 60 programmes and, by the end of this year, they will have broadcast more than 500 part songs. On Sunday, October 13, the first ina series of six progranimes by the Minstrels will be broadcast in the Main National Programme at 3.30 p.m. The series includes Negro spirituals, English folk songs, C. V. Stanford’s "Songs of the Fleet," choral arrangements of well-known
ballads and poems of Rudyard Kipling | set to music by Sir Edward German. Four of the Ministrels have won the Auckland Competitions Society’s operatic aria contest in the past four years. They are Betty Helliwell, Donald McIntyre, Ian Morton and John Durham. Another member, Douglas Stock, was placed secdnd in last year’s Mobil Song Quest. The ee accompanist is Alan Pow.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 31
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155Minstrels New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 31
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