Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000

Date: [1996-2001]

From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7349-125

Description: Various events in which McLeod participated including funerals, workshops, in memoriam services etc Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts, printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1982

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000; Dick, Frank Ferguson, 1937-2015

Reference: MS-Papers-6974-12

Description: Enclosures - Note by Dorothy Freed `Fergus Dick says anyone who wants to have fun with this can do so' Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 pages, 1 leaf). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1988

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000; Meyer, Frederick Charles, active 1936

Reference: fMS-Papers-6974-21

Description: Comprises scores and parts for Version 2, for wind instruments only, and the plan of the work First performance - For the Aids Society (Wellington Branch) at Government House, 23 Nov 1988 Form and medium - For trumpet, cornet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, tuba, B flat clarinet, narrator Contents: Mount Victoria -- Land of hope and glory -- I vow to thee my country -- Chopin's funeral march -- Grieg piano concerto -- Pokarekare ana -- The Teddybears' picnic -- I do like to be beside the sea -- Fanfare -- Early one morning -- Four seasons -- The Moldau -- Lullaby (God defend New Zealand) -- Fairest Isle -- Skye boat song -- Hymn -- Fanfare -- The Girl I left behind me -- Aloha -- There is a tavern in the town -- Brahms' 2nd Piano concerto Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs (some photocopies), typescripts

Date: 1967

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-4060-01

Description: Other - 'Original full score as played at the Auckland Festival 1970' Quantity: 1 folder(s) (i, 14 pages). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1982

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-6974-11

Description: Five Irish songs arranged by Dorothy Freed for John Dean's Newtown Variety Show Other Titles - Heart of my heart Other Titles - I'll take you home again Kathleen Other Titles - That's an Irish lullaby Other Titles - When Irish eyes are smiling Quantity: 1 folder(s) 5 items. Physical Description: Holographs, printed matter

Date: 1988

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000; Meyer, Frederick Charles, active 1936

Reference: fMS-Papers-6974-19

Description: First performance - For the Aids Society (Wellington Branch) at Government House, 23 Nov 1988 Form and medium - For trumpet, cornet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, tuba, B flat clarinet, 2 pianists, narrator Contents: Mount Victoria -- Land of hope and glory -- I vow to thee my country -- Chopin's funeral march -- Grieg piano concerto -- Pokarekare ana -- The Teddybears' picnic -- I do like to be beside the sea -- Fanfare -- Early one morning -- Four seasons -- The Moldau -- Lullaby (God defend New Zealand) -- Fairest Isle -- Skye boat song -- Hymn -- Fanfare -- The Girl I left behind me -- Aloha -- There is a tavern in the town -- Brahms' 2nd Piano concerto Quantity: 1 folder(s) [1], [5], 9 leaves. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies), typescripts

Date: 1988

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000; Meyer, Frederick Charles, active 1936

Reference: fMS-Papers-6974-20

Description: Comprises scores and parts for Version 1 (with piano) First performance - For the Aids Society (Wellington Branch) at Government House, 23 Nov 1988 Form and medium - For trumpet, cornet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, tuba, B flat clarinet, 2 pianists, narrator Contents: Mount Victoria -- Land of hope and glory -- I vow to thee my country -- Chopin's funeral march -- Grieg piano concerto -- Pokarekare ana -- The Teddybears' picnic -- I do like to be beside the sea -- Fanfare -- Early one morning -- Four seasons -- The Moldau -- Lullaby (God defend New Zealand) -- Fairest Isle -- Skye boat song -- Hymn -- Fanfare -- The Girl I left behind me -- Aloha -- There is a tavern in the town -- Brahms' 2nd Piano concerto Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs (some photocopies), typescripts

Date: 1978

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1978

Description: Includes programmes featuring: William Bower from Australia. Lute recital. Wellington Settlement, 155 Willis St, Sunday 13 August [1978]. Flyer only Christchurch Arts Festival. Festival opening concert. Canterbury Orchestra, music director Dobbs Franks; soloists Earl Wild, piano; Heather Begg, mezzo-soprano. Guest conductor Aaron Copland. [4 March 1978?]. Programme (2 copies) Lou Clauson, international entertainer. Illustrated promotional pamphlet with biographical notes. [ca 1978?] Youth For Christ present two top Gospel artists Andrae Crouch and Fletch Wylie. St James Theatre, 27 September [1978]. Illustrated flyer (2 copies) and mimeographed notice (2 copies) Compositions by Hamilton Dickson (With Hamilton Dickson, Michelle Maule, Alison Malcolm, Wendy Singer, Jennifer Seddon, Grant Crawley, Wellington professional Orchestra, Kathleen Coffey, Lois Riseley, Adrienne Christie, Robert Burch, Owen Christie, Bunty Western, Roma Farrant, Robyn McFarlane, Loretta Lander). 9 and 14 December 1978. Programme (photocopy) Ensemble Dufay present an intimate concert of music of the 15th & 16th centuries (With Greer Garden, Geoffrey Coker, Robert Oliver, Andrea Oliver, Jeff Scholes). Loaves & Fishes Hall, Molesworth Street, 24 September 1978. Programme (1 copy) and flyer (2 copies) Haber Duo (Michael (cello) and Nancy (harp) Haber). Wellington Concert Chamber, 4 May 1978. Programme and tickets Librarians' Concert (With Wendy Birch, Dorothy Freed, Beverley Anscombe, Alison Grant, Peter Merz, Gina Lisignoli, Nancy Swarbrick, Josephine Fluhler). Lady Goodfellow Chapel, Waikato University, 9 February 1978. Programme [Concert]. (With Douglas Mackie, Stanley Jackson, Olivia Fletcher, Irene Jackson). Pettifogging Press [1978]. Programme Music - content and form. Wider Horizons. Charles Martin's lecture recital at the CSA Gallery, 13 April 1978. Flyer / programme Napier Civic Choir. Music from opera (With Carol Bolton - soprano; Robert Houston - bass; accompanist June Armstrong; conductor Peter Williams). Subscription concert. Century Theatre Napier, 17 June 1978. Programme New Zealand Crumhorns, College Consort. Help export genuine New Zealand wind! Send the Crumhorns to Canada. Appeal pamphlet 1978. Opera and ballet Workshop. Musical director Dr Gerald Seaman; producer Janette Heffernan (With David Guerin, Limbs, Wendy Dixon, Pat Brown, David Skinner). At the Pumphouse, 27 June - 2 July [1978]. Programme Orlando Singers; ten voices unaccompanied singing motets, madrigals and folk songs. Mt Albert Methodist Church, 30 July; St Thomas' Church Kohimarama, 6 August; Auckland City Art Gallery, 31 August [Pettyfogging Press, 1978]. Flyer only Ivan Rebroff in concert. Australia & New Zealand 1978. Illustrated booklet with autograph Wellington Music School, 3rd. Chilton St James School, Lower Hutt, 20-23 October [1978]. Programme Wellington Society for Musical Education. "Israeli soiree". Jewish Youth Group present songs and dance from Israel. Wellington Girls' College, 21 June [1978]. Flyer only Earl Wild. Christchurch Arts Festival. Town Hall Auditorium, 9 March [1978]. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to quarto size, some illustrated. Provenance: One item donated by the Salvation Army, in 2012.

Date: 1962

From: Unity Theatre :[Programmes, fliers and small posters relating to plays and dramatic performances]

Reference: Eph-B-UNITY-1962

Description: Includes: 1962: "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen. Produced by Russell Duncan. Drummond Street Studio production, 1 July 1962. Call for auditions. Unity Theatre presents "The Lower Depths", by Maxim Gorki. Produced by George Webby. Designed by George Eiby. Lighting by Peter Holderness. Cast includes: David Archer, Max Bollinger, Auton Low, Glenis Levestam, Trevor Day, Mary Stephenson, and Bruce Attwood. Concert Chamber, Wellington, 7 August 1962. Programme (2 copies) "The drunkard". Old time theatre, produced by Mr Berger. 25-28 July 1962. Notice of audition on 17 June 1952. "A taste of honey", by Shelagh Delaney. Produced by Ralph McAllister. Set design by George Eiby. Music selected and composed by Leslie Souness. Cast includes: Helen Brew, Jennifer Hogan, Peter Vere-Jones, David Taylor, and Robin Slessor. Concert Chamber, 10 April 1962. Programme (2 copies), and a Notice "The Waltz of the Toreadors", by Anouilh. Produced by David Crewes. Decor designed by Peter Coates. Lighting and photography by Peter Holderness. Cast includes: Michael Haigh, Shirley Keane, Hilary Hughes, David Burger, Margaret Bell, Ron Lynn, and Nancy Longrigg. [Drummond Street Studio?, November?] 1962. Programme (2 copies) "Under Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas. Produced by Nola Millar. Music by Dorothy Freed. Lighting designed by Peter Holderness. Cast includes: Peter Vere-Jones, Sonia Mulherron, Max Bollinger, Geraldine Loftus, Barry Hill, Matthew O'Sullivan and Lewis Rowbotham. 1962. Programmes (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopies and offset prints, sizes varying around 300 x 200 mm. mimeograph

Date: 1982

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-6974-05

Description: Copies of `Chinese Terracotta soldiers', for piano. Dorothy Freed notes that "this piece was inspired by pictures of the archaeolgical excavation in a desert in China of hundreds of life-size terracotta soldiers standing in long lines leading to the tomb of an ancient emperor. They stir for a moment, dreaming of past battles, then return to their eternal sleep." Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 items). Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)

Date: 1946

By: Freed, William Ian, 1908-1971; Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000

Reference: PAColl-0994

Description: Photograph of James K Baxter flying a kite at Brighton, Otago, taken in 1946 by Bill Freed. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 9.2 x 15 cm

Date: [1980]

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000

Reference: fMS-Papers-5912-1

Description: Responsibility - Incidental msuic for Radio NZ production of play by Lauris Edmond Quantity: 1 folder(s) 4 pages + 5 leaves. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript

Date: 21 July 1989 - 21 Jul 1989

From: Archive of New Zealand Music - Oral History interviews

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000

Reference: OHInt-0133/35

Description: Dorothy Freed gives family background - father a musician. Talks about music in Wellington pre war, music in Dunedin during war, refugee concert goers; beginning of NZSO and Chamber Music Society. Recalls involvement with newly formed IAMLANZ. Mentions visit of Kurt von Fisher in 1973. Discusses award received from APRA for `Outstanding services to Music in New Zealand'. Other organisations mentioned include: CANZ and its achievements; Archives of New Zealand Music and CANZONA. Mentions Jack Body of New Zealand Composers Foundation and the Lilburn Trust. Talks about attempt to salvage Castles Collection of musical instruments and New Zealand Division of IAMLANZ breaking away from Australia. Venue - Wellington : 1989 Other - Transcript also held in Manuscripts (89-178) Interviewer(s) - Roger Wilson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001911, OHC-001912, OHC-001913, OHC-001914, OHC-001915, OHC-001916, OHC-001917, OHC-001918, OHC-001919, OHC-001920, OHC-001921, OHC-001922, OHC-001923; OHLC-001933-001945 Quantity: 13 C60 cassette(s). 12.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1362.

From: Radio New Zealand. Library: Collection

By: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000

Reference: fMS-Papers-4150-069

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Radio NZ catalogue.

Date: 1973-1985, 1995, 2001

From: Rimmer, John Francis, 1939- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11732-2

Description: Inward correspondence. Names of correspondents have been indexed in the name field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1985-1986

From: Harvey, Douglas Ross, 1951- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11647-2

Description: Contains correspondence relating to Anthony Grigg's review for Crescendo of `Into a new key' (1985) by John Mansfield Thomson, a history of the Music Federation of New Zealand. Includes letters between Thomson and Harvey (then the editor of Crescendo) discussing the choice of Grigg as reviewer. Also letters concerning the review between Harvey and Grigg, the Music Federation, Dorothy Freed and others. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (some photocopies)

Date: 1968, 1980-1981

From: Harvey, Douglas Ross, 1951- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11647-1

Description: Contains typescripts of articles written by music librarian Dorothy Freed. Topics covered include composer Douglas Lilburn, music copyright, and the development of a music score collection at the National Library of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1983-1990

From: Harvey, Douglas Ross, 1951- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11647-3

Description: Contains papers relating to the commissioning and writing of Harvey's book `Bibliography of writings about New Zealand music' (1985). Includes proposals, agreements and contracts; interim reports together with assessments by music librarians; and responses to research enquiries and other related correspondence. Not all correspondent names have been indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1995-1997

From: The Pocket Opera Company of Wellington Incorporated: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-12565-11

Description: Folder of submissions for the Pocket Opera commissioning project "Adventure into Opera" and related papers. Includes submissions from: Gary Daverne, Ross Carey, Philip Norman, Patrick Shepherd, Laughton Pattrick, Gareth McGuiness, Ian McDonald, Bryony Jagger, Dorothy Freed, Helen Caskie, Brigid Bisley, and Eric Biddington. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Not all names associated with the collection have been indexed.

Date: 1995-1997

From: The Pocket Opera Company of Wellington Incorporated: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-12565-10

Description: Papers relating to a commissioning project with the working title "Adventure into Opera", including administrative papers, Arts Council and Creative New Zealand applications for funding, submission forms, financial records, correspondence with panelists, composers, and others. Includes submissions from and or correspondence with: Ivan Patterson, Joe Bennett, Patrick Shepherd, Gavin Bishop, Dorothy Buchanan, Michael Leighton-Jones, Michael Vinten, Cheryl Camm, Helen Caskie, Jason Kaminski, Kit Powell (Christopher Bolland Powell), Michael Harlow, Gabriel Armstrong, Eric Biddington, Brigid Bisley, Philip Brownlee, Ross Carey, Gary Daverne, David Farquhar, Dorothy Freed, Bryony Jagger, Ian McDonald, Gareth McGuiness, Philip Norman, Laughton Pattrick, and Anthony Ritchie. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Not all names associated with the collection have been indexed.