CORNETTIST

Radio Record, 21 August 1936, Page 20

CORNETTIST

Weber tema nee Career of Glever Youngster eee me CORNETTIST who has just entered his teens has been billed for a performance from 1YA on Saturday, August 29, and is likely to give listeners a surprise with the standard of his music, even without allowance for his youth. Since he was seven years of age this lad, Ted Fleetwood, has been playing the cornet. He was born at Rotorua. After two years of tuition he won the Bay of Plenty ‘boys’ solo competition, and the following year, in 1934, he re. peated the performance, adding the open solo to his credit that year and in 1935. At the age of: 1 he was fourth in the Dominion championship jn the boys’ solo section at Timaru,.and second in the same section of the South Auckland contest at Te Aroha. This year, still only 12 years old, he was second in the boys’ solo section at New Plymouth’s Dominion contest, and has won both the boys’ solo and the open solo in the Hamilton-South Auckland contest.