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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

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Music is the most popular and widely diffused art practised in New Zealand, and is an essential feature in the social life of Otago. Throughout the province every town, and almost every village, has its glee club, or choral association, and a musical fraternity. In Dunedin the leading musical societies are the Choral Society, the Orchestral Society, and the Liedertafel, and the city also possesses several excellent bands, including a pipe band. On Sunday afternoons band concerts are given in the Botanical Gardens, and they are also held occasionally on summer evenings. These open-air concerts are always well attended. Musical festivals and operatic and dramatic companies, usually attract large and sympathetic audiences in Dunedin, which theatrical managers regard as one of the best “show” towns in the colony. Several English, European, and colonial musicians of repute are settled in Dunedin, and, as teachers of music, they are referred to personally in this section.

Princes Street, Dunedin.

Princes Street, Dunedin.