 The promotion and encouragement of these events provided not only a great spectacle and opportunity for music-making, but also infused a competitive spirit into the works of choirs, singers and instrumentalists in the award of prizes (in the tradition begun at Kendal, UK in c.1889), tending to the encouragement of excellence.Plunket Greene repeated the experience in Saskatchewan in 1931, together with Harold Samuel, Maurice Jacobson and Hugh Roberton.Among those to profit from his teaching was Sir Keith Falkner, whom Plunket Greene coached in his famous interpretation of the "Lamentation of Job" in Parry's oratorio "Job".