Cryer, John Maxwell, 1935-2021

Date: 1971-1983

From: Scrimgeour, Colin Graham, 1903-1987 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4104-010

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1961

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-GB-1961

Description: Sadler's Wells Opera. "Ariadne on Naxos". 31 January 1961 and 23 February. Programme (Donald McIntyre)(2 copies of 31 January, 1 copy of 23 February) Sadler's Wells Opera. "Cinderella". Sadler's Wells, 4 January 1961. Programme (Denis Dowling) "Cinderella". Theatre Royal Bristol, 21 December 1961- 3 February 1962. Programme (Vivienne Martin) Sadler's Wells Opera in "Eugene Onegin". 21 February 1961. Programme (Donald McIntyre) Sadler's Wells Opera in "Eugene Onegin". 2 March 1961. Programme (Donald McIntyre) Sadler's Wells Opera. "Die Fledermaus". Sadler's Wells Theatre, 19 January 1961. Programme (Denis Dowling) Sadler's Wells Opera. "Cinderella". 18 October 1961. Programme (Heather Begg) Sadler's Wells Opera Company. "The land of smiles". 20 June 1961. Programme (Denis Dowling) "May night". Welsh National Opera Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre, May 1961. Programme (Bryan Drake) "Merrie England". Cambridge Arts Theatre, 20 January - 4 February 1961. Programme (Denis Dowling) Sadler's Wells Opera. "Orpheus in the underworld". 16 October 1961. Programme (Heather Begg) Sadler's Wells Opera. "La traviata". 26 December [1961]. Programme (Heather Begg) Handel Operatic Society. "Semele". Sadler's Wells Theatre, 16 and 18 May 1961. Programme (Bryan Drake) Handel Operatic Society. "Semele", 16 & 18 May 1961; "Rinaldo", 17, 19, 20 May 1961. Flier (Bryan Drake) Welsh National Opera Company. "Nabucco". May 1961. Programme (Bryan Drake) (2 copies) Sadler's Wells Opera. "The nightingale" and "Oedipus Rex". Sadler's Wells Theatre, 18 October 1961. Programme (Donald McIntyre) "Un giorno di Regno". St Pancras Arts festival, 21-22 March 1961. Programme (John Hauxvell) Sadler's Wells Opera in "Tosca". 27 October 1961. Programme (Donald McIntyre) "Il Trovatore". Sadler's Wells Opera, 1 December 1961. Programme (Donald McIntyre) "A village Romeo and Juliet". Sadler's Wells Opera. 19 September 1961. Programme (Donald McIntyre) "Volpone". New Opera Company, Sadler's Wells Theatre, April 1961. Programme (Heather Begg, Bryan Drake, Max Cryer)(2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes, sizes ranging under 250 mm. Provenance: Some programmes purchased from Louise Grant, London, in 2003-2015; some donated by the Theatre Museum London; one programme donated by Donal Raethel, Wellington, in 2011; one from John Gray papers in 2009.

Date: 1976 - 1978

From: Canterbury Orchestra :[Music ephemera and concert programmes of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-CO-1976/1978

Description: Includes: 1976: 1976-1977 subscription series. Pamphlet Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Mozart, Copland, Mendelssohn]. Ashburton 21 July 1976; Christchurch, 24 July 1976. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Mozart, Tschaikowsky]. Lincoln 9 September 1976; Christchurch, 11 September 1976. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Mozart, Menotti, Barber, Kodaly]. Christchurch, 27 November 1976. Programme (2 copies) 1977: Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Lilburn, Farquhar, Martin, Mozart]. Ashburton 22 March 1977; Diamond Harbour 25 March 1977; Christchurch, 26 March 1977. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Scoenberg, Hummel, Mozart]. Darfield 26 May 1977, Schools special 27 May 1977, Christchurch, 28 May 1977. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Honegger, Molique, Mozart]. Rangiora 23 June 1977; Christchurch, 25 June 1977. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Stravinsky, Dvorak, Schubert]. Waikari 10 October 1977; Christchurch, 12 October 1977. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks, in cahoots with South Pacific Television. PDQ Bach (embarrassed guest artists Philip Sherry, David McPhail, Dame Erma Cryx, Hudson & Halls, Max Cryer, Harmonic Chorale). Town Hall Auditorium, 4 December 1977. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Second subscription series. Pamphlet (2 copies, one damaged) 1978: Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Handel, Hindemith, Schubert]. Akaroa 28 April 1978; Christchurch, 29 April 1978. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Walton, Prokofiev, Schubert]. Darfield 26 May 1978; Christchurch, 27 May 1978. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Ravel, Sibelius, Beethoven]. Ashburton 13 July 1978, Christchurch, 15 July 1978. Programme Canterbury Orchestra. Music director Dobbs Franks; leader Ruth Pearl. [Poulenc, Webern, Haydn, Beethoven]. Darfield 27 October 1978; Christchurch, 28 October 1978. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes, sizes ranging under 250 mm. Provenance: Acquired prior to 1990.

Date: 1989

By: Hamilton Operatic Society (Inc)

Reference: Eph-D-OPERA-HO-1989-01

Description: Pink poster advertising an opera production. An arrangement of text showing a circular inset portrait illustration of a young woman at the top, and a red rose near the bottom. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 605 x 425 mm. Provenance: Donated by Trustees of Opera-Technique Inc, 2007 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PA-Group-00057 - Other material of the same provenance is at PA-Group-00057, and Manuscripts 2007-042..

Date: 1966

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1966

Description: Includes: Auckland Society for Contemporary Music. Contemporary American music. Art gallery, 23 July 1966. Programme (2 copies) Auckland Society for Contemporary Music. Invitation of contemporary music. Broadcasting House, 16 October [1966?]. Programme Shirley Bassey on stage (with singer / dancer Bernard Hall; and New Zealand supporting acts: The Quare Fellows, Max Cryer, Fenton Bowen). Souvenir booklet NZBC Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. 1966 New Zealand tour. Itinerary [Mimeographed booklet] NZBC presents Eugene Istomin piano recital. Christchurch Civic Theatre, 17 May 1966. programme Civic Concert Council. "The Messiah". St John's Cathedral Napier 19 November; St Matthews Church Hastings 20 November 1966. Programme NZBC presents The New Christy Minstrels, American folk singers. Lower Hutt Town Hall, 19 April 1966. Programme NZBC presents The New Christy Minstrels, American folk singers. Auckland Town Hall, 29 April 1966. Programme Royal Youth Concert in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (With "Cambridge suite" by Jenny McLeod, "Blake cantata" by Edwin Carr; "Maori suite" by Ashley Heenan). Wellington Town Hall, 26 April 1966. Programme (2 copies) Stadiums Pty Ltd, Aztec Services Pty Ltd and International Entertainment Corp Ltd. Jimmy Shand and his Band (Jimmy Shand, Jim Johnstone, Angus Fitchet, Peter Straughan), with Ian McLeish, Ivy Carey, Jimmy Fletcher. New Zealand tour. Souvenir booklet (2 copies) Kiri Te Kanawa soprano. grand farewell concert. Town Hall Wellington, 5 February 1966 (With the Henry Rudolph Singers, Sandra Averi, Peter Averi, Robin Gordon, Frank Malthus). Souvenir programme (3 copies, one autographed on front cover) Maurice Till. [Two sheets of press reviews] (2 copies of each) University of Canterbury Unergraduates' Choir and Orchestra. Conductors L L Rivenburg and D F Sell. University Hall, 28 July 1966. Typescript programme / flier Denes Zsigmondy (violin) with Annaliese Nissen (piano). New Zealand Broacasting Corporation. Studio One, Broadcasting House, 6 April 1966. Typrescript programme / flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to quarto size, some illustrated.

Date: 1962

From: [Record covers] :[Record covers from various recording companies. 1940-1960s].

Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-Covers-1962-01

Description: Front shows title. Verso shows the contents, which featured Geof Rennison, Sandra Pearce, Peter Gruebner, Sam Stevens, John Winder, Dick Johnstone, Dietrich Fischer-Deischau, Helen Smith, Rae Pritchard, Margaret Blay, Allan Michael, Dave Skinner, Miles Coney, Arnaud Barraud, Francis Whyte, David Williams, Max Cryer. The title is a take-off of the 1960 film "Butterfield 8". Quantity: 1 LP record cover.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on record covers, 308 x 310 mm. Transfers: Transfered from Manuscripts and Archives. The recording is at MSD12-0281..

Date: 1965-1983

From: Lander, Loretta, 1941-2021: Photographs relating to opera in New Zealand

By: Dominion (Newspaper); Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-1860

Description: Photograph album relating to Loretta Lander and her involvement with various opera productions and choir performances staged by the New Opera Company of Wellington, De La Tour Regional Opera Trust, Opera Technique Inc, Orpheus Choir, and amateur shows in Wellington. Possibly also includes photographs relating to the New Zealand Opera Company. Taken between 1965 and 1983 by The Dominion, Evening Post and unidentified photographer(s). -Includes views of Loretta Lander and other cast members in various performances on stage, dress rehearsals, backstage and socialising while on tour. Also includes photographs taken for publicity purposes. - Productions featured are 'Gondoliers' (1965), 'Iolanthe' (1966), 'Yeoman of the Guard' (1967) and (1973), 'Madam Butterfly' (February 1976), 'Maximes Music Hall' at the Concert Chamber (1970), 'La Boheme' (1974), 'Don Pasquale' (1974), 'La Traviata' (1975) at the State Opera House Wellington, 'Merry Widow' (October 1975), 'The Marriage of Figaro' (August 1976), 'Albert Herring' (April 1977), 'Amahl and the Night Vistors' (1977), 'Madam Butterfly' (1983). - Singers featured include Angela Shaw, Emily Mair, Geoffery de Lautour, David Parker, Bruce Carson, Barry Mora, Graeme Gorton; Ian Morton, Noel Signal, Peggy Roberts, Susan Roberts, Gillian Stier, Loretta Lander, Marie Lochore, Denise Hulford, Fiona Petrie, Don Lister, Trevor Rose, John Thompson, Revel Rice, Ross Alley, Peter Molneux, Beverley Bergen, Howard Dickson, Heather Taylor, Roger Creagh, Dorothy Hitch, Heidi Mckay, Barbara Green, Ted Driscoll, Robyn Houston, Don Lister, Max Cryer, June Bronhill, Anthony Benfell, Dame Malvina Major, Corrine Bridge, David Caccia-Birch; Timothy Hawley, Betty Adams, Colleen Caccia-Birch, Jean Liner, Greg Mildenhall, Rob McGovern, Bevis Marshland, Owen Shanks, Rachael Hancock, John Robinson, Glenn McAllister; Heather Taylor, Flora Edwards, Frank Carter; Lynne Cantlon, Louise Malloy, Vangel Stoyarnoff. Also includes views of Malvina Major and Corrine Bridge with Mrs Akiko Sutherland of the Japanese Embassy. -Includes views of the Orpheus Choir singing 'Turandot' at the Wellington Town Hall (August 1976), and English Conductor David Willcocks in rehearsal with choir members choir founder and director Malcolm Rickard, and John Knox (August 1977). -Includes views of Scots College cast members backstage for 'Yeoman of the Guard (1968), students in costume (1978) and the Upper Hutt Choral show of 'Merrie England' (1979). -Includes views of the filming of 'Die Fledermaus' with director Peter Coates in Avalon Studios 1983. -Names selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in red linen with 'Photographs' in gold lettering on front cover, 24.5 x 32cm

Date: 1969-1999

From: Webby, George Raymond, 1925-2012: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11962-3

Description: Undated draft reviews of 'Awatea' by Bruce Mason (ca 1969) and 'Town cryer' by Max Cryer (ca 1978), and instructions to Drama School students (ca 1978 and 1999). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1957-1982

From: Webby, George Raymond, 1925-2012: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11962-4

Description: Loose newspaper cuttings relating to acting, theatre and personalities Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: May 1987

From: Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11369-155

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2000-2011

From: Garland, Phil, 1942-2017: Papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-11839-013

Description: Contains printed email correspondence with folksong researcher John Archer. Includes messages sent to the `NZ-folk' email list by Archer, together with replies by other list members. Also some email correspondence with Max Cryer concerning a traditional toast, "New Zealand's a free country". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: [1962-2003]

By: Cryer, John Maxwell, 1935-2021

Reference: ATL-Group-00013

Description: Comprises material relating to Kiri Te Kanawa's performing career. Includes sound and video recordings, published articles, photographs, fliers and programmes, concert passes and correspondence. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Title supplied by Library. Material collected by Cryer over a period of his long association with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Quantity: 12 compact disc(s). 6 digital video disc(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 folder(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 colour copy transparency/ies. 1 colour original negative(s). 0.03 Linear Metres Total. Physical Description: Compact discs and digital video discs, manuscript material, photographic prints, one negative and one photographic slide. Transfers: Published recordings on 12 inch vinyl disc: - Mina Foley with Michael Tarawhiti McGifford. ODE, 1986. - William Forbes-Hamilton, Esq. presents Music Hall. Live from the Star Hotel, Auckland. Zodiac Records Ltd., [1970's] - Darwin - song for a city. In aid of the Darwin Relief Fund [Saturday 25th January, 1975]. London. The Decca Record Company Limited. 1975..

Date: 1863, 1974, 1976, 1993

From: Jones, Jenny Robin, 1947- : Research papers and transcripts

Reference: MS-Papers-11793-29

Description: Contains miscellaneous publications, including the first issue of the New Zealand herald newspaper, dated 13 November 1863, and the front section of a 130th anniversary issue dated 13 November 1993. Also contains two magazines from the 1970s - Life and career of the late Prime Minister Norman Kirk (1974) and TV personality parade by Clive Morris (1976), which features profiles and photographs of New Zealand television personalities from the 1970s. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1972

From: [Posters of around A1 and A2 size, for performances of opera, light opera, and musicalsin New Zealand. 1970-1979]

By: Victoria & Albert Productions

Reference: Eph-D-OPERA-1972-01

Description: Programme for this production shows a poster illustration by Michael Bentley, on the verso, of Christ with a crown of thorns depicted right side up, and inverse, on white and on black. The recto gives the synopsis of the musical, and biographical notes and small portrait photographs of performers and production personnel: William Forbes-Hamilton, Max Cryer, Rob Guest, Gary Daverne, Dick Johnstone, Elizabeth Mary Hellawell, Grant Bridger, Vaughan Lawrence, Jenny Parkinson, Phil Wilbraham, Lorraine Havill, Lew Pryme, John Wilde, John Sumner, John Lees, Keith Ewart, Michael Holt, Kevin J Wilson. Programme designed by Michael Bentley. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of poster, 560 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phil Parkinson, Wellnigton, in 1979.

Date: 2011

By: Cryer, John Maxwell, 1935-2021

Reference: MS-Papers-11259

Description: Comprises an illustrated biography of Terry Gray and an accompanying letter addressed to Max Cryer. Also includes a typescript of obituary Cryer wrote for Otago Daily Times, and a clipping of the article. A funeral order of service is also enclosed. . Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter

Date: [ca 1940-ca 1980s]

By: Carson, Jack, active 1940s; Qantas Airways Ltd; Stuart Pemberthy Photography Ltd

Reference: PA1-q-1149

Description: Photograph album of images showing, and relating to, broadcaster Cherry Raymond (1925-2006), taken circa 1940s-circa 1980s by mainly unidentified photographers. Images reflect her professional and private life, including Raymond conducting interviews and on panels in the studio [Beauty and the Beast?], glamour portraits, modelling and performing (in Glasgow, for a camera company, and on a boat), and holiday images. Her association with other television and arts personalities such as Kiri Te Kanawa, Selwyn Toogood, Keith Bracey, Dougal Stevenson, Kenneth Adam, Diana Rigg, Patrick Mcnee, and Max Cryer is also covered. Another identified figure is Leo Silvera, tenor. Some photographers are identified (many of these on the back of loose prints held in separate pocket). These include Qantas airlines, Robert C Wood and Stuart Pemberthy Photography Limitied. Photographer information is likely on the back of other prints, but it is unable to be accessed due to the prints being stuck in the album. Accompanying information - Album also contains a small amount of ephemera and manuscript material, including a Christmas card, a telegram, and a postcard of the Eiffel Tour addressed to 'Poppy'. Screen Parade magazine, with a photograph and short article about Raymond, also included. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Purchase, 2013. Album may have originally come from Cherry Raymond or a close family member. Transfers: Collection received as a whole into the Photographic Archive and transfers made from there. - To Ephemera Collection - Broadcasting Ball souvenir programme of 1953 (Eph-A-RADIO-1953-01).

Date: 1989

From: Ireland, Kevin, 1933- : Papers

Reference: 94-180-4/07

Description: Inward and outward correspondence, minutes etc; most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Also includes letters from Trixie; Rosemary; Forrest; Jessica, Bucklands Beach; and letter to Maurice re contribution to collection of erotic writings by New Zealanders from Richard McLachlan and Sue McCauley. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1998

From: Middleton, Ian, 1928- :Photographs of Anna Hoffman's book launch

Reference: PA1-q-898

Description: Album compiled by Ian Middleton, comprising photographs of people who attended the launch of Anna Hoffman's book 'Tales of Anna Hoffman', at The Business Cafe and Bar, Tamaki Drive, Mission Bay, Auckland, in June or July 1998. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album 33.2 x 17.8 cm, containing 24 colour photographs and one clipping

Date: 1915, 2005

By: Woods, John Joseph, 1849-1934; Bracken, Thomas, 1841-1898; Richardson, Foster, active 1915

Reference: MSCD-0150

Description: Recording of `God defend New Zealand' by J J Woods and Thomas Bracken, made in London by baritone Foster Richardson in 1915, dubbed by Max Cryer in 2005. Label: From Zonophone Twin 3074; X342437 Matrix: AK 1925e Track 1: "electronically cleaned"; Track 2: original 78. Quantity: 1 compact disc(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A2005-292) Donated by Mr M Cryer, Auckland.

Date: ca 1870-1971

By: Sargeson, Frank, 1903-1982; Lowe, J, active 1870s

Reference: PAColl-0528

Description: Photographs of Frank Sargeson being interviewed by Malcolm Muggeridge, a group portrait at Elam 1971, a carte de visite of an unknown woman taken in England, a woman (Dan Doran's daughter?) holding a baby, and a christmas card with photographs of children attached named Llewelyn, Faith, Joh, Bronwen, Dylan, Ursula, and Evelyn. Note amongst collection reads: "Photos from Harry Doyle's room". Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-058491 to 058495 Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Donated by Frank Sargeson