Music In Schools

Radio Record, 19 August 1938, Page 46

Music In Schools

Geo. E.

Wilkinson

(Dunedin) :

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recent issue I notice reference to proposal put to the Canterbury Hducation Board by Mr, G. Martin, concerning a schools’ musical festival. I was delighted to read of this. It may interest you to know, and perhaps you could give the matter same publicity in, your paper, that I have recently gained the support of the local headmasters’ association and of the Otago Pduecation Board, for a similar noncompetitive festival, here in Dunedin, among the primary schools. Three of the headmasters and myself are at present engaged in selecting music which will be in New Zealand in ample time for February next, when it is hoped that schools will take in their stride, without much disruption of their ordinary work, preparation for the festival, which will probably be held in the second term of 1939, There is much eDthusiasm among most of the headmasters, and I am hopeful that the new departure will be the means of enlivening interest in choral singing among our primary schools,