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16 Nov 2019 | |
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Rector, Graham Smith called 1982, “ a year in which we moved quite boldly into the realms of the performing arts”.
Choir
At the beginning of the decade, a choir was established in the junior school and throughout the period did well in choral festivals as well as performing at St John’s Cathedral. By 1989 the choir had grown to a twenty strong male voice choir providing valuable support to the singing in school chapels.
Drama
The early 80’s saw a number of Gilbert and Sullivan productions being presented, usually with the cooperation of Iona College. These included “Patience” and “Pirates of Penzance” and were always well received by the audiences. In 1986 the first collaboration with Hastings Girls’ High School presented the musical “Network” in the Girls’ High hall. Lindisfarne’s own production that year was “Oh What a Wonderful War”. A collaboration between Lindisfarne and Woodford House in 1989 produced “Time and Time Again” with a cast of 85 performers which played to sold out audiences.In this period Lindisfarne made regular entries into the One Act National Drama Festival. The inaugural House Drama Festival was staged in Term 2 of 1983 with four one-act plays presented by the college houses and became an established tradition thereafter.
Public Speaking
New Zealand Speech Board Exams became very popular in the 1980’s and by 1989 250 boys received various qualifications with 34 of these being Honours grades. Debating also saw considerable interest and development in this period with numerous teams entered at all levels of debating competition. In 1989 the Lindisfarne Senior debating team, competing against 240 schools, won the National final of the Westpac Schools’ Debating Competitions with Lindisfarne’s third speaker, Nicholas Bailey judged the best speaker of the competition.
Music
Features of the musical life of the College in the 1980’s were the School Concert, the Orchestra, a College Dance Band and the Pipe Band. In 1989, Mr D. Apperley was appointed as the College’s first Director of Music. He immediately initiated and presented a demonstration Concert in the evening of February 15th, which featured Lindisfarne pupils and outside musicians. The Concert was organised in order to tutor, encourage and give confidence to young musicians who were capable of joining the Orchestra, and also to give support to those parents whose sons wished to play a musical instrument. The result of this evening was that the Orchestra quickly grew in numbers, and with its expanding repertoire of hymn tunes, was now able to accompany the boys’ singing at Chapel.
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