In musical circles Mr, Fairburn will also be missed. Very few can pride themselves in having done more for Choral music in Shanghai than Mr. Fairburn. Having come from a family connected for ihres generations with the Royal Choral Society, Mr, Fairburn's knowledge of choral works was unsurpassed locally and as the direct result of his guidance hundreds of singers in Shanghai, through the medium of the Shanghai Choral Society, have benefitted by having taken part in works of his suggestion.
He it was who in the Spring of 1934, founded the Shanghai Choral Society—an organization which an-unally grows in popularity. He has also been a prominent member of the Cathedral Choir, with which he has been connected' for the past ten years, Whilst his many friends here do not begrudge him. the pleasures which lie before him, in matters musical, it is the hope that he and his Family will eventually yield to the call of ithe East and return again to Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.