Born in Hawera, Helen Young studied at the Royal College of Music and Guildhall, London; taught music in London; worked with the Music Library of the British Arts Council and with the British Institute of Recorded Sound, before returning to New Zealand. In NZ she became Manager, Concert Programme, Radio New Zealand. Daughter of Andrew Young and Agnes (née Bartholomew)
Young, Helen Agnes, 1926-
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Professional and social life
Date: 1996-2011
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Photographs
By: Photography by Woolf Ltd
Reference: PAColl-10457-4
Description: Photographs taken by mainly unidentified photographers between 1996 and 2011. Mainly images of Judith with various people including students, colleagues, and friends, many unidentified. Some images are at parties, social events, and concerts, and show people eating, drinking, socialising, and performing piano duets. Identified people include Ruth Harte, Graham Dreadon, Michael Houstoun, and Margaret Sparrow. In some images Clark is in a wheelchair or using canes. In several she is speaking on the phone. In most she is wearing glasses. Also includes a set of prints from an unidentified event with musicians performing, proof sheet of portraits of individual students posed at a piano, and group portraits of students with Clark around a piano (1996). Formal and informal images show Clark at particular events, including the reception for her being awarded a Companion Order of Merit at Government House (1998) and her 80th birthday party in 2011 (with one set of photographs showing her cutting the cake). A further set of images show a garden and flowers with the inscription on the reverse reading “Name: Williamson Order No: 108[??] of Warehouse Stationery” and another set of prints are images that were sent to Clark by friends with the correspondence (or copies) included. Arrangement: Some prints have numbering on the reverse Quantity: 177 colour original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s) 1 single image and 2 proof sheets. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and dye coupler prints Transfers: See also PA1-o-1951.
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Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 :Photographs
Date: ca 1930-ca 1980
By: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997
Reference: PAColl-5351
Description: Photographs of Owen Jensen and other people. Some are of groups involved in musical events and workshops. These photographs are part of a larger collection comprising files relating to organisation of Auckland Adult Education Service and Community Arts Service concerts; reviews for various journals and newspapers; papers relating to publishing, to autobiography and to Cambridge Music Schools; the BBC; scrapbooks; and other papers Quantity: 1 album(s). 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Audio
Interview with Helen Young
Date: 12 - 16 Nov 1990 - 12 Nov 1990
From: Archive of New Zealand Music - Oral History interviews
By: Thomson, John Mansfield, 1926-1999; Young, Helen Agnes, 1926-
Reference: OHInt-0133/04
Description: Helen Young gives a spontaneous, amusing and detailed account of childhood in Hawera, early musical experiences, learning the piano and study at the Royal College of Music and Guildhall, London. Also describes teaching; working with EMG, a prestige gramophone shop in London; working in the music library of the British Arts Council and with Patrick Saul in the early days of the British Institute of recorded sound. Mentions advice received from John Gray re joining NZBC where she became manager for the Concert Programme, encouragement of the New Zealand performer and difficulties experienced by the programme, such as the attempt to introduce advertising in 1981. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - John M Thomson Venue - Ms Young's home in Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003561, OHC-003562, OHC-003563 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
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Interview with Helen Young
Date: 22 September 1997 - 22 Sep 1997
From: Interviews by Allan Thomas on music in Hawera
By: Young, Helen Agnes, 1926-
Reference: OHInt-0518/3
Description: Helen Young recalls early memories of Hawera where she was born. Describes family musical background. Mentions first piano teacher, Daisy Reilly and her sister, Constance the singing teacher. Recalls Winifred Huggins who ran a children's choir known as `The Midgets'. Discusses competitions. Other Hawera personalities mentioned include: Margaret Buist, Ron Trotter, Fred Horner, Allan Horner and Margery Horner, the Corrigan family, Frank Hutchen, the Du Fresne family, Mrs Veale, the Fyson family, Margaret Neilson, Helen Brown, Relda Familton, Mrs Nancy Russell (elocution teacher), Harry C A Fox and Bill Nicholas. Interviewer(s) - Allan Thomas Quantity: 1 transcript(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-1933.
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: 2009-2011
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11836-020
Description: Contains mainly birthday cards and notes. Relating to Clarke's 80th birthday in 2011, and to an article about Clarke in 'Ritmico' 2009 (the journal of the Institute of registered music teachers of New Zealand). A copy of the Ritmico issue featuring Judith Clark is included Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Ivy Ella Clark
Date: 1930, 1982, 1990
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11836-008
Description: Correspondence, mainly expressing grief and sympathy for Judith Clark following her mother Ivy Ella Clark's death in 1982. Also papers relating to the funeral Also includes a copy of register of marriage of Judith Clark's parents Ivy Ella and Fitzgerald Martin (1930) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Portraits of prominent New Zealanders, Wilson to Young
Date: 1984, 1986-1987
From: Alexander Turnbull Library: Portraits of prominent New Zealanders, taken by Kenneth Quinn
Reference: PAColl-3712-32
Description: Portraits of prominent New Zealanders taken by Kenneth Quinn. Comprises six prints of Ormond Wilson, taken 26 April 1984; four prints of Frederick L W Wood, taken 16 October 1984; one print of Toss Woollaston, taken 16 July 1987; and six prints of Helen Young, taken 9 October 1986. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).
Manuscript
Retirement album
Date: 1995-1997
From: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014: Papers
Reference: MSY-8148
Description: Album containing cards, notes, and homages, to Judith Clark from her friends, pupils, and colleagues on the occassion of her retirement Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: [1987]
From: Ireland, Kevin, 1933- : Papers
Reference: 94-180-1/07
Description: Inward correspondence; identified correspondents entered in the Name field. Also includes review by Ireland and poems by Graham Billing and Louis Johnson; and letters from John, Great Barrier Island; [?] at Dublin; Vince, Kilburn; Simon, Department of English, Canterbury University; and from Cynthia, same address; and related papers. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: [1990]
From: Ireland, Kevin, 1933- : Papers
Reference: 94-180-1/13
Description: Inward and some outward correspondence, including regarding the Writers in Spring Celebration, which was held in Hamilton in 1990 with Jan Gerritsen as liaison. Also includes application for funding grant; poems by Peter Bland; sketch of Ireland by James Ensing-Trussell; letters from Ralph, Governors Bay, Lyttelton; and Rebekah, Chartwell, Hamilton; card from Anne; notes; staff address list (1990); clippings; and other papers. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Condolence and good wishes correspondence
Date: 1982
From: Pruden, Penny, fl 1992 : Papers relating to Larry Pruden
Reference: MS-Papers-6494-02
Description: Inward letters and cards following the illness and death of Larry Pruden Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: 1988
From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5171-23
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letter from Sister M Leonie of St Mary's Convent, Christchurch; cards from Alexander, Pat of Warkworth, Lindsay and Jonathan of Wellington, K & R of Chicago, Alison and Paul of Wellington, Syd and Michael in Austria, H in Turkey, Frank in Australia, Helen; letter from William of the English Dept, Massey, with photograph of group at the Settlement; card from Robyn from England; letters from person at Wuppertal University enclosing poems by Friederike Zelesko, from [?] Patricia of Epsom, Auckland, Ruth and Bill writing of the death of their son, Jeremy, in a mountaineering accident Quantity: 1 folder(s).