Lower Hutt Music and Drama Festival, 6th April - 4th May 1957. To celebrate the official opening of the Town Hall. Souvenir programme. Printed by Hartleys, Lower Hutt [1957]

Programme lists the items performed by:

6 April: National Orchestra of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service (with a photograph of the conductor James Robertson), with soloist Janetta McStay and members of the Lower Hutt Civic and Municipal Bands

7 April: Hutt Valley Orpheus Choir performing "The Messiah"

8-12 April: New Zealand Ballet Company "A tale of long ago"

9-10 April: Hutt Valley High School with a mixed musical concert

13 and 15 April: New Zealand Opera Company (photographs of Donald Munro, Bertha Rawlinson and Wayne Healey) performing "The Impresario" and "Amahl and the night visitors"

16 April: Naenae College with a mixed musical concert

17 April: Hutt Valley Competitions Society with a grand demonstration concert

26-27, 29-30 April: Hutt Repertory Theatre performing "Years ago", by Ruth Gordon, directed by Bernard O Jones

2 May: Hutt Valley Scottish Society with a mixed programme of Scottish dances

4 May: Lower Hutt Civic Band concert

Two copies held.

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, each 248 x 190 mm.