Further Relay from Timaru

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 11, 27 September 1929, Page 8

Further Relay from Timaru

Concert to be Relayed by 3YA on Tuesday

HE Timaru Orpheus Society has arranged an excellent programme for its concert on Tuesday, October 1, when a relay is to be carried out by 8YA. The full programme appears in another column. This society occupies an honoured place in the musical life of Timaru. Though founded in 1914 by Mr. A. W. V. Vine, the present hon. conductor, the society may be said to be the lineal descendant of the old Liedertafel, which was founded by the late Mr. Ziesler in 1896, whose successors with the baton were the late Mr. Sidney Wolf, the late Mr. Ellis Wood and the late Mr. J. Campbell Gillies, The trustees of the Orpheus Society, Messrs. J. P. Newman and F. J. Rolleston, together with two, members of the choir, Messrs. J. W. Holdgate and J. McKennah, were memhers of the choir of the old Liedertafel. tee HE season runs during the winter months, from March to October in each year, during which period. it. is customary to. give two concerts in Timaru. During the war years concerts were given . in Waimate, Temuka and: Pareora. The society is steadily growing in popularity with the musical public of Timaru, and now has 21 patrons and 253 subscribers. The choir consists of 27 active members, being six first tenors, seven second tenors, seven first basses and seven second basses. A gold lyre, the highest honour which a male voice society can bestow upon its members, has been awarded to several distinguished members, and a gold bar, for ten years’continuous membership, and a further gold bar, for each complete five years’ continuous membership thereafter, have also been awarded to many members.