Excellent Entries

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 23, 19 December 1930, Page 6

Excellent Entries

Song-writing Competition WENTY-NINE musical settings for the prize poem in the song-writing competition promoted by the 1YA Musical and Dramatic Committee have been received, and the judges, Dr. S. Kenneth Phillips, Mr. J. Tait and Mr. H. Hollingrake, have announced their award. The winner has proved to be Mr. Bric Waters. In awarding the prize to him the decision of the three judges was unanimous. Mr. Waters is a composer who has already "won his spurs," for

it was he who composed the music of the opera "Tutankamen," which created a furore when produced in Auckland. Besides this he has many other works to his credit. As a musician, 1YA listeners know Mr. Waters ° well as a piano soloist. He is pianist of

the Orchestral Octet and of the studio Trio. The prize poem, the words of which have now been set to music, was written by Mr. W. Francis Chambers, of Wellington. In that competition there were 333 entries. .