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Date: 1976

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1976

Description: Includes: Australian Opera 1976 New Zealand tour, October 15-30, Wellington 15-21 October / Auckland 23-30 October [1976]. Pamphlet /booking form (2 copies) Australian Opera 1976 New Zealand tour. Who is ... Jenufa. Grand Opera House Wellington, 16 & 19 October; St James Theatre Auckland, 23, 26, 29 October [1976]. Pamphlet (2 copies) New Opera Company of Wellington. "Madame Butterfly" by Puccini. Grand Opera House Wellington, 28 February - 13 March [1976]. Pamphlet / booking form (2 copies) New Opera Company of Wellington Inc presents "Madame Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini. Opera House New Plymouth, 27-28 March [1976]. Programme (signed by Malvina Major) City of New Plymouth Centennial '76 to commemorate the official re-opening of the New Zealand Opera House. 7 August 1976. "South Pacific", lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, music by Richard Rogers. Produced by Dorne Arthur; director of music Shirley Murphy. Souvenir programme Gisborne Music Society [and] Gisborne Choral Society. An evening of opera. Pianist Lucy Brook; conductor David Vine. Guest artist Beverley Gow, and Carolyn Arapeta (soprano), Roger Flury (tenor), Derek Allan (bass). Memorial Theatre, Saturday 18th September 1976. Programme University of Otago Music Department presents "L'Orfeo"; a music drama by Claudio Monteverdi, performed in English. Designed by Susan Drummond; produced by John Drummond; conducted by Gillian Bibby. Marama Hall, 11-13 July [1976]. Programme Songs from "Saultalk"; a sweet rock musical based on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of Paul. Festival 76 [Porirua?]. Booklet of words Upper Hutt Operatic Society Incorporated presents "Tom Sawyer" ... with words and music by Rae N Simmonds. Producer - musical director Jill McAlister; choreographer Carol-Ann Moynihan. 11-18 December 1976. Programme Victoria University of Wellington Music Society presents "The dragon of Wantley", a burlesque opera by Mr Henry Carey, set to musick by Mr John Frederick Lampe, and produced by Mr Peter Meikle, to be performed at the Victoria University of Wellington Memorial Theatre, 10-12 June [1976]. Flier only (2 copies) Radio New Zealand presents "Turandot", by Puccini. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, concertmaster Peter Schaffer, with Milla Andrews, Angela Shaw, Anthony Benfell; The Orpheus Choir. Conducted by James Robertson. Wellington Town Hall, 19 and 21 August 1976. Programme (2 copies) Wellington Teachers' College. "Dido and Aeneas", by Henry Purcell. Musical direction Laughton Pattrick. Production Ralph McAllister. 17-[22] July [1976] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes, sizes ranging under 250 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Beverley Thomson, Wellington, in 2013; one by Loretta Lander in 2014.

Date: 1961

From: Macky, Willow, 1921-2006 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

By: Macky, Willow, 1921-2006; Hurst, Michael, active 1961; Franchi, Dorothea Anne, 1920-2003

Reference: 96-331-9/08

Description: Various versions of The Maori flute with typescript words and annotations Variations in title - Mokoia Island Other Titles - The Maori flute / words and music by Willow Macky ; piano arrangement by Michael Hurst Other Titles - Mokoia Island / words and music by Willow Macky ; arranged for flute and voice by Dorothea Franchi Other Titles - Mokoia Island / arranged for voice and guitar Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts (some photocopies)

Date: [1868-1870]

From: Ward, John Patrick, 1847?-1914 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-11815

Description: Further manuscript accounts of the New Zealand Wars by Private John P Ward. Handwritten accounts on the New Zealand Wars 1860s and 1870s. Includes accounts of Whitmore's Taranaki campaign, Titokowaru, and the search for Te Kooti in the Gisborne area after his escape from the Chatham Islands in 1868. Also a comic ballad written by John P Ward called `Paddy Doyle's Lamint' which is set during the Taranaki War, and is written in an Irish `dialect'. Some of the drafts may be typescript copies or annotated copies of previous acquisitions. Also includes `The battle of the double crossing: A blood curdling, yet true account of an incident in the Taupo Campaign of 1870' written by John P Ward. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 71 pages..

Date: [1960s]

From: Gibbs, Rowan, 1947- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7193

Description: Copies of tramping songs, one beginning `Trampers rise in the early morn'; a song sheet for the Wellington Tramping & Mountaineering Club's 21st birthday celebrations comprising `Stein song', `Tom Dooley', `Red River Valley', `Rock my soul', `Three jolly coachmen', `Keyhole in the door', `Swing low', `Glorious mud', `Aidle-o-boy', `Now is the hour' and `Spinning wheel'; and Combined Tramping Clubs Campfire programme, `The Big sandfly', `Take me back to my boots and saddle', Darky Sunday school', `You can't go to heaven', `Viva La compaigne, `Green grow the rushes oh!', `Down among the bluebells', `No boots at all', `Tararua Ranges', `Alouette', `Red River Valley'. `What shall we do with the drunken sailor', `The Terror of the Tauherenikau', `Abdul Abulbul Amir', `Be kind to your webfooted friend, `The Parachutist's lament', `On the slopes of Mt Alpha', `Anna Hooch', `Dixie', `Star of the evening'. Many of the words of the songs have been created by tramping club members. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (three pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: These songs have been collected as part of Rowan Gibbs's business as a rare book dealer

Date: [1855-1951]

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Miscellaneous items transferred from Printed Collections

Reference: MS-Papers-6058

Description: Comprises papers removed from `NZ Trades and Labour Conference Reports' (1895-1911) including notes by A G Bagnall, notes on 1904 conference, clippings, copy of letter sent to MPs after Auckland conference by W S Moxsom (1909), memorandum for W B Sutch re merging of Social Democratic Party with NZ Labour Party (1940), and circular letter for St Mary's Church, Karori (1951); words for song to the tune of the `Volga boatmen' of the NZASC (1942); correspondence between Turnbull and Robert McNab removed from McNab's `Murihiku' (1904, 1908); bill of exchange, Navy & Foreign, William Noble, paymaster (1873) removed from `Journal' of Commodore Goodenough (1876); errata to J G Wilson's `A History of Hawke's Bay' and clipping (removed from same); transcription of plate in Russell church for Augustus Hamilton in English and Maori; list of subscribers for Gudgeon's `Defenders of NZ' (1886); clipping removed from Elder's `Letters and journals of Samuel Marsden' (1934); typescripts of letter, Joseph Churches to his family, from `Letters from settlers and labouring immigrants...NZ Co's settlements...' (1843); note probably by Alexander MacKay from New Zealand Land Court `Important judgements...' (1879); notes re notes in T Musgrave's `Castaway on the Auckland Isles' (1865); letter H R H Balneavis to John Houston (1930) Also photocopies of notes by John Houston on sheets from the `The lore of the whare wananga' by Elsdon Best from Reserve Coll; notes from copy of Hooker's `Handbook of NZ flora' signed by Walter Mantell, copy going to reserve collection; notes from Reeves' `The Long white cloud' (copy owned by John Houston); notes on Napier Post Office (1969) Other Titles - History of Hawke's Bay by J G Wilson Other Titles - Murihiku by Robert McNab Other Titles - Defenders of New Zealand by T W Gudgeon Other Titles - Letters and journals of Samuel Marsden, ed by J R Elder Other Titles - Castaway on the Auckland Isles...Capt Thos Musgrave Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: From Book Collections - - From Serials Collection -.

Date: ca 1869

From: Mata, Y. T. [Waitemata, pseudonym] :The gold digger's song. [Auckland, ca 1868]. Words by Mrs St George; music by Y. T. Mata.

By: Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: PUBL-0041-1

Description: The illustrated cover of a sheet music title 'The gold diggers' song' for a song with piano accompaniment. The illustration depicts three men holding gold nuggets, standing by a stream, with a fourth miner standing in the entrance to a tunnel to the left. Digging tools and a wheelbarrow, billy and hat in front of the men and their tents and another mine entrance in the background. The song credits printed on the sheet music cover: "Words by Mrs St George; music by Y. T. Mata, Auckland" [pseudonym for the composer, derived from ‘Waitemata']. The illustration credits are: "Del. I Wai Theton" [pseudonym for the illustrator, derived from "I weigh the ton". "Del" refers to delineavit or drawn by], and "J D Schmidt Litho" (John Diedrich Schmidt, a lithographer). Mrs St George was the pseudonym of Frances Shayle George, née Frances Southwell, 1828-1890. The sheet music is likely to have been published in 1869 when John Diedrich Schmidt arrived in Auckland. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 270 x 214 mm Processing information: Record edited March 2024 to improve information on composer, lyricist, and illustrator names.

Date: 1930s-1950s; [1975?]

By: Waaka, Kuru, 1924-; Keepa, Wiremu Mataia, 1922-1975

Reference: MSC-005879

Description: Recording by 1YZ National Radio featuring Stan Ringer on hotels and transport, and Kuru Waaka on the Geyser Hotel and the 28th Maori Battalion(1930s-1950s), featuring singing by the Battalion with Billy Keepa soloist. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 1 audiocassette(s) cassette.