BEAUTIFUL VOICES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 133, 7 June 1934, Page 6

BEAUTIFUL VOICES

TRIBUTE TO VICTORIANS L Ter Press Association. I WELLINGTON, June 6. “As a result of careful listening for three weeks, 1 should say that genially speaking the voices in Victoria are better than they are in Now Zealand,” said Mr H. H. Dixon, •conductor of the Christchurch Musical Society, on his return by the Wanganella to-day after judging the musical sections at the Bendigo competitions. “Whether or not the tradition of having as fellow-countrymen and women those with such voices as Melba, Horace Stevens, Amy Castles, Dolly Castles, Pauline Bindly and many others, has anything to do with the case I know not, but certainly I have never heard so many beautiful voices within the compass of one competition area, nor have I ever seen such enthusiasm on the part of the public, which packed the hall every night without exception, a fact that will enable the committee to show a good profit. Over 15,000 people attended during the carnival. ’ ’ Mr Dixon was associated on the staff of adjudicators with Mr Byron Brown, of Wellington, who judged the elocutionary sections. Afterwards MiBrown went on to Melbourne to judge elocution at the Music Teachers’ Competition, at which Mr Alfred Hill was assisting as judge of the musical sections.