Broadcast of Children's Choir

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 51, 5 July 1929, Page 6

Broadcast of Children's Choir

¥ SYA to Relay Unique Festival from Temuka

TREAT for music-lovers, and especially for those to whom the singing of children makes a strong appeal, will come over the air from 3YA on Friday, July 12, when.a Children’s Choir Festival will be relayed from Temuka. This festival will be on the lines of those promoted in England, and will be quite a new thing in New Zealand. The competitive element has been entirely eliminated. Each school in the district has prepared a number of children in certain selected songs, and all these children are to be brought together on the appointed date, and will sing in two massed choirs, one of boys and the other of girls. It is anticipated that each choir will comprise upwards of 150 voices, and they will be accompanied by a string orchestra of nine instruments. Mr. Vernon Griffiths, the well-known Christchurch lecturer on music in schools, is going to Temuka to conduct the choirs and generally to supervise the festival. In addition each, school will give a musiCEE eee

cal number of its own during the course of the programme, and it is probable that the Orari Bridge School Choir, which recently gained a second prize at .Christchurch Competitions, will sing the same music as they sang in Christchurch. The event will be unique in that for the first time the competitive element will have been eliminated. The organisation of this festival is largely due to Mr. B. Hughes (choirmaster) and members of St. Peter’s Choir. The following schools will be participating: Temuka, St. Joseph’s, Geraldine, Pleasant Point, Orari, Milford, Orari Bridge, "Mrs. De Renzy’s Winchester," and Arowhenua Native. ' The selected songs which will be sung by the massed choirs will be: Boys-"Who is Sylvia’ (Schubert), "The Captain and the Frenchman" (Dunhill). Girls-‘‘When Icicles Hang on the Wall" (Dyson), "You’ll Get There" (Parry). ~~ TUTTI EA: