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T.. HE. MUSIC SOCIETY MR. F. WAINE. Secretary: A A. BLOOMFIEL D. Choral Society Secretary: R. M. KmKus. Orchestral Secretary: R. G. BEAN. R. D. BECKrFT.
Grove:
M. J. BADDELEY.
P. L.
BARDGETT.
Rise:
R. M. KIRKUS. J. E. MOORE.
House Representatives: Manor:
A. M. MARSH. J. 0. R. PENMAN.
School House:
N. J. BELL. C. G. HOWAT.
Queen's:
R. G. BEAN. A. BLOOMFIELD. Temple:
R. D. Baclaw. J. M. W. DOBSON.
We opened the new school year with exactly half the previous year's Committee. Six members remained and six new members were appointed. New officers were elected to the vacant posts, and the programme of the concert in the Easter Term was discussed at the opening meeting. The Secretaries of the Choral Society and Orchestra have all gone about their duties with enthusiasm, and the gramophone record library has been well administered. New records have been purchased during the term, including the recent Adrian Boult recording of Messiah on long playing records.
The Choral Society has met weekly on Wednesday or Thursday mornings after School and has rehearsed several numbers from Part I of Haydn's "Creation" and the Madrigal from the Mikado. It is hoped to add to the amount of Gilbert and Sullivan for the concert next term, but until the copyright on Gilbert and Sullivan expires many difficulties stand in the way of performing selections from the operas at concerts. The Orchestra has rehearsed at a new time, 6-15 p.m. on Fridays, in the gymnasium, and the experiment has proved worthwhile. The tape-recorder visited a rehearsal at about half-term and it was noticed that in the following week the orchestra played very much better together and in tune. The School has purchased a bassoon and it is hoped that a player will immediately come forward to learn this useful instrument of the orchestral woodwind. The amplifier has continued to provide music on Fridays after morning school and smallish but increasing audiences have stayed to hear music chosen by members of the School. Some new boys did not appear to know that all are welcome at these recitals, and there is no subscription to the Music Society. Programmes were arranged and presented by :—A. Bloomfield, J. E. Moore, N. J. Bell, R. D. Beckitt, J. M. W. Dobson, and R. N. Johnson, 33
