Can You Write a Song?

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 7, 29 August 1930, Page 3

Can You Write a Song?

Auckland Competition At the last meeting of the 1YA Musical and Dramatic Committee the report of a sub-committee set up to draft conditions for a song-writing competition was adopted. The recommendations, which have been approved by the Broadcasting Compapy, are as follow :- 1. A prize of two guineas will be aysarded to the writer of the poem best "ed to a musical setting as a song. °2. The entries submitted will be judg. ed by the quality of their thought and . expression. . ; 8. In the event of the judges deciding that no entry is suitable, no award will be made. 4. Each entry must be signed with a pseudonym and be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the pseudonym and the competitor‘s name and address. , 5. Entries must be addressed: The Judges, 1YA Song-writing Competition, _ Station 1YA, France Street, Auckland. and must reach the station not later than September 26. It should be noted that the above competition refers only to the writing of the words. Another prize for ‘the composition of the music will follow.