Format: | Set Test and Own Choice |
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Adjudicators: | Percy Jones |
Venue: | Sydney Sports Ground, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Position | Band | Conductor | Music | Set Test Draw | Own Choice Draw | Set Test | Own Choice | Total |
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1 | Randwick Municipal | Ernest Kerry |
Tristan & Isolde
The Valkyrie |
1 | 3 | 144 | 148 | 292 |
2 | Bondi Beach Concert | Albert Baile |
Tristan & Isolde
Selection from Franz Liszt [arr. McAnally] |
5 | 2 | 146 | 144 | 290 |
3 | Townsville Railway (Qld) | Albert Trembath |
On the Cornish Coast
1924
|
4 | 1 | 142 | 147 | 289 |
4 | Westmead Old Boys' | Charles Coughlan |
Selection from Franz Liszt [arr. Keighley]
1924
Oliver Cromwell 1923 |
3 | 5 | 140 | 141 | 281 |
5 | Burwood District | Walter Ahrens Leahy |
Beethoven [arr. Round]
1889
Tristan & Isolde |
2 | 4 | 135 | 138 | 273 |
MUSIC 2 own choice selections
No.1 Selection points listed under Test
Following the new rule introduced by the Australian Band Council ,In a first for Australian bands and possibly the world percussion instruments were included .at a contest
The Own Choice Selection from"Liszt "(arr McAnally) that the Bondi Beach Concert band played was the same selection (though arranged by Thomas Keighley on that occasion) bandmaster Albert Baile won with the Newcastle Steelworks at the Bellevue contest (Eng) 1924.
They were the only band that took advantage of the new rule . It had a full set of tympani etc and played splendidly by Hayden Huckstepp
(The above article appeared in the "Tempo Band Journal" Feb 1935)