New Quickstep

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 46, 24 May 1935, Page 21

New Quickstep

Special Composition for "Port" Silver Band MUSICIANS throughout the Dominion will be ‘interested to learn that the latest musical composition from the pen of Mr. Thos. Gray, of Wanganui, will be pet--formed by the Port Nicholson Silver’ Band from the -2YA studio on. Friday, May 31. Mr. Gray has named this brilliant quickstep "Port Nicholson,’’? and has dedicated it to Mr. } ~- J. Drew, the popular conductor of | that fine organisation, the Port Nicholson Band. Mr. Gray began his musical career in Wellington with the old Artillery Band, In 1899 he was a member of the Wellington Garrison Band under the baton of Mr. Thos. Herd, when that first-class combination visited Bathurst, N.S.W. In 1900°he joined the Wanganui Gartison Band under the. conductorship | of Mr. James Chrichton, from whom he received a thorough band training, and was associate? with .that gentleman as euphonium and trombone soloist throughout all of the Wanganui Garrison Band’s successes, . He was trombone soloist for this band when they visited Ballarat (Australia) and wor the Austra-. lian championship. Mr. Gray, who has been associated with bends and orchestras for over 50 years, has won numerous championships on E flat bass, trombone and -euphonium, was conductor of the Wangan.:i Garrison Band fo- three years, also conductor of the Wanganui ‘Citizens’ Orchestra. During recent years he has composed several selections for brass bands aril military bands, and apart from adjudicating at district contests, was adjudicator of the colo competitions at the last New Zealand brass band contest held at Wellington in February, 1934,