88:. In 1928 he won the Elder scholarship for organ playing. In 1932 he was admitted Licentiate of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and College of Music, London (LRSM), the first organist in South Australia to be so accredited, and that same year appointed organist and choirmaster of Kent Town Methodist Church. In 1934 he was appointed music master at Prince Alfred College, which he served concurrently with his church duties until May 1939 when he resigned, to be replaced by Arthur Brewster Jones. He also found time to write a few pieces of his own: his
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204:'s programme of recordings to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. He supervised the public musical performances given during her visit to Adelaide in 1954, and a similar programme for the Queen Mother's visit in 1958.
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was a noted church organist, teacher and composer, and his grandfather George
Williams Chinner ( â 27 May 1880) was sufficiently respected as a musician to be on the panel of judges which in 1859 selected
77:(nÊe Ethel Rose Ridings, died 1966, and mother of concert pianist Peggy Palmer), and in piano from Miss A. Hodge, then in 1926 began taking organ lessons from Fred Pilgrim (1885â1942), organist at the
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violinist and singer, and a member of the South
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619:"Farewell Social to Mr. Norman Chinner, LRSM"
706:"A Splendid Performance of Handel's Messiah"
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