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Noted Music Directors Return from Far East

1965-09-23

The Leader

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Rockville Centre, NY

Edith Mcintosh, Director of the Sdith Mcintosh School of Music
Jti RQckvia& Centre,, and Marion Bannerman, head o£ her own Harp
atudio m Heippstead,. returned, last week, Irom a tour of several
.'ountri^ot the Far East. ', :
Taking off by Pan Am from I^ndon on August S, they flew over
.e top to. Tokyo, breaking the
flight by a one-night stop In
Seattle. They travelled from
Tokyo with a group of professional
people wider the direction
Df Sita. in the course of the tour,
lliey Visited high points of interest
in the cities and surrounding
countryside of Japan, Taiwan,
;he Chilippihes. and also Hong
Kong, Singapore and Bangkok,
Thailand. Oh the way home, the musicians
stopped off in Hawaii for
ten days. They paid short visits
:o each of three of the neighboring
lislands (Kauai, Mauai, to Kona and Hilo on.the island of
Hawaii), and spent the remaining
days of thiT^acation on
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu,
As in years past, Miss Mcintosh
spent tiie month preceding
the tour at Ashford Chace, Hampshire,
England. She again studied
piano at . The Manor House,
Buriton, with the Matthay Group
of pianists, several of whom return
each ^ummer, under the direction
of benlse Lassimonne,
Mrs. Bannerman, too, was in England
visiting friends, during the
month of July.