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NSW State Championships (A Grade)

Sun 27 Jan 1935



Format: Set Test and Own Choice
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
1 Randwick Municipal Ernest Kerry Tristan & Isolde / The Valkyrie
1 3 144 148 292
2 Bondi Beach Concert Albert Baile Tristan & Isolde / Selections from 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 Oliver Cromwell / Selections from Liszt (arr Keighley)
3 5 140 141 281
5 Burwood District Bill Leahy Beethoven (arr Round) / 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)





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