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Miriam and Doreen
Thank you to Tina Mattocks (nee White) for this cutting from the East African Standard.
DOUBLE AWARD TO NAIROBI CONVENT
LORETO CONVENT, Valley Road, was placed first in the senior and junior choir classes at the Kenya Music Festival in the National Theatre, Nairobi, yesterday. The adjudicator was, Mr. Hubert Dawkes, of the London Royal Academy of Music, who later conducted eight choirs of 240 children singing Geoffrey Shaw’s A Tiny Calendar.
Mr. Dawkes - described by a festival official as “most helpful, constructive and popular” - was demonstrating the importance of members of a choir singing in the direction of the conductor. “In this way voices can blend properly.” he told the children.
Ballet demonstration
He had earlier told boy singers: “In the Army and in schools people are told to put out their chests - in singing if you push your chest out too much you contract your back and this does not make for good breathing.”
To emphasize the cultural and religious aspects of Oriental dancing. Miss Savita N. Mehta, a festival adjudicator, has arranged for the Parimal Art Academy, Lugazi, Uganda, to stage a ballet in the Manipuri style - Hansa Danayati - after the senior prizewinners’ concert on Saturday.
Results : - School bands: Under 13 - 1, Westlands School; 2. Loreto Convent, Msongari.
Piano solo: Aged 15 to 18 - 1. Judith Holland; 2, Anna Kofsky; 3. Sheila Sunde. 9 to 11 - 1. Michael Piper: 2, Elizabeth Donkin, Jane Blaker and Shirley Lunan (tie)
Vocal: Boys aged 7 to 10 - Peter Gibbs; over 10 with unbroken voice - 1. David Lake: 2, Simon Williamson.
Choirs: Junior- 1 , Loreto Convent. Valley Road; 2, Westlands School. Senior - 1, Loreto Convent. Valley Road: 2, Loreto Convent, Msongari; 3, Westlands School.
Piano solo: Aged 13 to 15 - 1, Sally Mowat; 2, Joan Forrester and Rhodia Mann (tie); 3, Corinne Johnson and Vivienne Knoll (tie).
Soprano: Open - Christina Fernandez, Vocal duet (soprano and baritone): Open Elva Silver and John Macpherson.