University of Otago. Department of Music

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: 14 Jul 1995

From: Oral history interviews for the Archive of New Zealand Music

By: Platt, Peter (Sir), 1924-2000; Halton, Rosalind, active 1995-2006

Reference: OHInt-0134-11

Description: Interview with Sir Peter Platt, born in Sheffield, England, in 1924. Talks about his family background, and his parents meeting when they were medical students. Refers to his father being awarded a Baronetcy for services as president of the Royal College of Physicians, and his reasons for not using the title in academic life. Discusses his father's political views, and his own view of the importance of research. Describes his musical awakening at the age of 13. Mentions studying at the Royal College of Music, London, and his service on torpedo boats in the English Channel during World War II that interrupted his studies. Talks about deciding to become an academic, studying at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the character of his Oxford education. Refers to teaching at Sydney University before his appointment as Professor of Music at the University of Otago. Comments on the impact his predecessor Victor Galway had in establishing music as an intellectual and rigorous discipline within the university. Explains how he came to teach medieval music, its strength and its role in the origins of Western music. Refers to his first sabbatical leave from Otago, performances attended in Germany and England, and musicology visits in the United States. Comments on how his interest in musical exploration had developed at the University of Sydney, and discusses the interdependence of musical disciplines and the arts in general. Outline how his teaching of harmony and counterpoint was modeled on the 16th century practice of counterpoint. Discusses restructuring the harmony course at Otago in 1970 in conjunction with Jack Spiers, opening the way to ethnomusicology as well as pop music and composition. Mentions the introduction of performance into the university course in the 1960s. Reflects on his lecturing style, his ideas on linking all branches of music, and the importance to him of the process of renewal. Talks about the character of Dunedin as a music centre, and the disadvantage to the city of the establishment of the National Orchestra just before he arrived. Comments on the establishment of the Dunedin Civic Orchestra ca.1960, and on his work as musical director of the Dunedin Opera Company. Recalls conducting classical and contemporary music, and playing the oboe in performances. Refers to his busy schedule of rehearsals and performances with various choral, opera and instrumental groups in Dunedin. Talks about visits by notable musicians to Dunedin including Julius Katachen and Istvan Nadas. Discusses his work as the first chairman of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. Abstracted by - Rosalind Halton Interviewer(s) - Rosalind Halton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-020284 - OHC-020286 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.47 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7115. Search dates: 1924 - 1995

Date: 1976 - 1979

Reference: Eph-C-OPERA-1976/1979

Description: Includes programmes and posters for: 1970s?: Wellington High School presents "Joseph and the amazing technicolour dream coat". 7-9 August [1970s?]. Handmade poster 1976: R.M. Enterprises proudly present the incredible "Ace follies". Concert Chamber, 25-30 August [1976]. Poster Victoria University of Wellington Music Society presents "The dragon of Wantley", a burlesque comic opera by Mr Henry Carey set to Musick by Mr John Frederick Lampe and produced by Mr Peter Meikle with musical director Mr Ross Harris. Memorial Theatre, 10-12 June [1976]. Poster (2 copies) 1977: The De La Tour Opera Group presents "Amahl and the night visitors", also the Phoenix Choir directed by Simon Tipping will present a programme of carols. Wesley Church, Taranaki Street Wellington, 13-14-15 Dec[ember] at 8 pm. [1977]. Poster 1978: University of Otago Music Department. Mozart "The magic flute", produced by John Drummond; musical director Robert Glenton. Allen Hall Theatre, 29 June - 3 July [1978?]. Poster / programme Victoria University of Wellington Music Society presents a comic opera by Gluck. "The reformed drunkard; or The devil's wedding", libretto by Louise Anseaume. Musical director Ross Harris; director Adrian Kiernander, with members of the Baroque Players. Memorial Theatre, 14-17 June [1978?]. Poster / programme (2 copies) Val Deakin Dance Theatre. Tchaichowsky "The Nutcracker". With Jane Roseman and Christopher Lyall. New Plymouth Opera House, 15-17 December [1978] 1979: National Opera of New Zealand. Mozart's immortal "Cosi fan tutte". With Lynne Cantlon, Richard Barnard, Angela Shaw, Timothy Hawley, Louise Malloy, Malcolm Smith. Conducted by James Robertson; directed by Anthony Besch; designed by John Stoddart. Poster/itinerary/booking form (2 copies) D'Oyly Carte in Gilbert & Sullivan. Australia & New Zealand 1979. Gold-covered tour booklet / programme (2 copies), plus inserted publicity folder in one copy De La Tour Opera. Wellington Public Library Hall. 2 comic operas. "If the cap fits!" [by] Geoffrey Bush; "Rita" [by] Donizetti. Featuring Anne Langston, Roger Wilson, Les Dorizac, Frances Green, Frank Carter, Geoff de Lautour, Peter Lockwood. Produced and designed by Peter Coates. 24-28 March [1979?]. Poster (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on posters and folded programmes, sizes varing up to 450 x 350 mm.

Date: 1970

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1970

Description: Includes: 1970s?: Otago University Music Department presents "The beggar's opera", by John Gay. A new version by John Drummond. Allen Hall Theatre, 3-7 July [1970s?] New Plymouth Operatic Society. Cole Porter's "Can-Can". Producer Laurie Swindell; musical director Shirley Murphy; choreographer Sharon Brabender. Opera House New Plymouth, commencing 12 October 1970. Programme The Intimate Opera Group present "Catherine" (dramatic cantata in 2 acts). Music by Peter Ilych Tchaikavsky. Musical director Bruce Thomson; costumes Daphne Lawrence; settings George Morrison; production Raymond Hedges ... Intimate Opera Theatrette, 135 Aro Street, Wellington, [ca 1972?]. Programme / cast list flyer. "The dollar princess", by Leo Fall, presented by the Central School of Music Speech and Drama; arranged and adapted by Raymond Hedges; music George Scott Morrison. Programme / flyer [Wellington, late 1970s?] Intimate Opera Group, 170 Aro Street. An evening of light opera. Musical director Noel Tingey. [1970s?]. Programme / flyer Intimate Opera Group. "Orpheus and Euridice", by C W Gluck. Producer Raymond Hedges; musical director George Morrison; pianist Noel Tingey. Jewish Social Hall, Ghuznee Street, Monday 29 July [1974 or 1985?] Lower Hutt Operatic Society presents "Robin Hood", a pantomime. Written by Tony Hare & Pat Wilson; produced by Lawry Sutherland; musical director Bob Walker; choreographer Regina Parsons. Lower Hutt Little Theatre, 28 November - 7 December [1970s?]. Programme (2 copies) 1970: "Earth and sky", Jenny McLeod. Music-theatre for schools commissioned by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand; text from the ancient Maori poetry of the creation. Recorded from the Auckland Festival performances at the Mercury Theatre, 16-18 March 1970. Ian Harvey conductor; Kath McRoberts choral director. Theatre production and design Ian Mune; choreography Bazil Pattison ... produced for Records by Chris Thompson. Programme Tauranga Schools Music Theatre Society supported by Tauranga Regional Music and Arts Council presents the Australasian premiere of Carlo Menotti's "Help! Help! The Globolinks!". Director Peter Tulloch; musical director Dobbs Franks. Tauranga Town Hall, commencing 29 August [1970]. Programme Quantity: 9 programmes and fliers. Physical Description: Offset prints on booklets and fliers, sizes varying beneath 350 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1979

From: University of Otago. Department of Music :[Music ephemera and concert programmes of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-UOMD-1950/1979

Description: Includes: 1950: University of Otago. Programme of chamber music by the University Trio (With Gladys Vincent, Francis Bate, Maurice Till, assisted by Thelma Lupp, Patricia Naismith). St Margaret's College, 6 August 1950. Programme / flyer 1953: The Dunedin Chamber Music Society Inc and the University of Otago. The University Trio. Burns Hall, 3 October 1953. Programme / flyer 1974: University of Otago Music Department. Arnold Schoenberg. Centenary recital; the piano works. Frederick Page. Marama Hall, 7 March 1974. Programme 1978: University of Otago. Department of University Extension. Fourteenth summer music school. Campbell Park School, Otekaieke, North Otago, 2-15 January 1978. Pamphlet / enrolment form Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm. Provenance: Two programmes donated by Richard Till from the collection of his father Maurice Till, in 2014.

Date: 1950-1979

By: University of Otago. Department of Music

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-UOMD-1900s

Description: Not yet listed Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed booklets and fliers, up to quarto size, some illustrated.

Date: 1986

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1986

Description: Includes: University of Otago Department of Music presents the premiere performances of "The birds", after Aristophanes. Words and music by John Drummond. Allen Hall Theatre, 5-13 July 1986. Programme Academy Opera. "La clemenza di Tito" by Mozart. Musical director of Jubilate Singers - Martin Setchell. Catholic Cathedral (Christchurch), 18 October 1986. Programme (2 copies) Company of Musical Players Inc. Musical variety 1986. Producer Mary Weston; musical director Joyce Brown. [Wellington, 1986]. Programme Stewart Macpherson and the Spirit of Adventure Trust. "The pirates of Penzance". St James Theatre, Auckland, 10 October [1986]. Flier "The Rocky Horror Show. State Opera House, commencing 14 May [1986]. Typescript flier Wellington Polytechnic Music Department presents "The threepenny opera", by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Producer Flora Edwards; musical director Simon Tipping (With Paul Whelan, Jenny Wollerman, Bruce Greenfield, etc). University Memorial Theatre, 30 October - 2 November 1986. Programme, and pamphlet (2 copies of pamphlet) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes and fliers, sizes ranging under 250 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-UOMD

Description: See child records for details Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 2016-2018

By: McIndoe, Ihlara Jayne, 1997-

Reference: ATL-Group-00490

Description: Scores of works by Ihlara McIndoe. They include the scores: 'Duo for violin and piano', (2016), 'An incomplete list of things I can quantify. qualify and query', (2017), and 'Mutual assured destruction' for piano and tape, (2018). Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music. These works received prizes as part of Lilburn Trust Student Composition Competitions at University of Otago in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Title supplied by library. Quantity: 3 Electronic document(s) PDFs.

Date: 2014-2017

By: Betuw, Samuel Allan Kris van, 1994-

Reference: ATL-Group-00489

Description: Scores and recordings of works by Sam van Betuw. The works include: 'Cristaux dans la Lumiere des Etoiles' for violin, cello, marimba and piano (2014), 'Views from a Haunted Hill' for cello, double bass and piano (2015), 'Little Bird' for soprano, flute and piano (2016) and 'Three songs of grief and joy' (2017). Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music. These works were placed in Lilburn Trust Student Composition Competitions at University of Otago between 2014 and 2017. Title supplied by library. Quantity: 5 Electronic document(s) PDFs. 1 digital photograph(s) png.

Date: 1980

Reference: EPH-C-OPERA-1980/1981

Description: Includes the following posters: 1980?: De La Tour Opera Group. "The Old Maid and the Thief [by] Menotti; Rita [by] Donizetti". Producer Peter Coates, musical director Geoffrey de la Tour. (With Anne Langston, Roger Wilson, Les Dorizac, Frances Green, Pat Barry, Marion Gray, Peggy Roberts, Phillippa Ward, and Peter Lockwood); Wellington College Little Theatre, 24-26 May; Dowse Gallery, Lower Hutt, 27-28 May [1980?]. (2 copies) Opera and Ballet Workshop. "Schoenberg", Cabaret songs by Louise Malloy; "The Opera Expectation" by Wendy Dixon; musical director William Dart, director Janette Heffernan, lighting designer Jay Macoy, costume designer Elizabeth Jenkins, and designer Derek Cowie; The Pumphouse, Lake Pupuke, Takapuna, 15-17 October.[1980?] University of Otago Music Department. "Scipio of Africa, an opera by Cavalli"; Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin, 23-26 & 28 June. [1980?] Victoria University of Wellington Department of Music and Music Society. "Edward Harper's Opera Fanny Robin" with "Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale". Musical directors David Farquhar and Ross Harris, Director adrian Kiernander. (With Jane Manning, Roger Wilson, and Margaret Nielsen); Memorial Theatre, Victoria University of Wellington, 23-26 April. [1980?] (2 copies). 1981: Theatre Corporate. "Piaf", 14 February 1981. Porirua Little Theatre. "Cabaret". Directed by Alan Farquhar; Titahi Bay Community Hall, Porirua, 26-28 March, 2-4 April. [1981] Wellington Teachers College. "Amahl and the Night Visitors"; Wellington Teachers College Hall, 21-22 October [1981] (2 copies hand-drawn posters). Wellington Gilbert & Sullivan Society. "Iolanthe", State Opera House, 1-10 October 1981. De la Tour Regional Opera of Wellington. "Serate Musicale" [and] "The Contract of Marriage". Produced and designed by Peter Coates. (With pianist Fiona Mackay, Madeleine Bruce, Frank Carter, Ron Thrush, Denise Wilson, Brian Wilkins, and Geoffrey de Lautour); Wellington Repertory Theatre, 11-13 June, Dowse Gallery, Lower Hutt, 14 June. [1981] (2 copies). Quantity: 1 folder(s). 10 posters. Physical Description: Off-set and photolithgraph posters, sizes varying up to 450 x 350 mm.

Date: 1968

By: Wallace, Margaret J, active 1968; University of Otago. Department of Music

Reference: MSX-9595

Description: Bound volume of photocopied scores of three works by Margaret Wallace. Includes settings of three translated Māori waiata, with translations by Roger Oppenheim and Allen Curnow, and Ruth Dallas, named "An Ancient Maori Flute song". The words of the three songs are in typescript bound in front of the score. The other two scores are "Sonata for Piano" and "Encounter with God, a psalm setting based on the Gelineau translation". Notes on the psalm setting and the words of the psalm are in typescript bound in front of the score. The front page of the volume is stamped "Department of Music University of Otago". Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music. The translation by Allen Curnow and Roger Oppenheim of 'An ancient flute song' was first published in Landfall as part of 'Six poems from the Maori' in March 1957 issue. Title supplied by Library. Composer is possibly Margaret Joan Wallace who completed a Master of Arts in Music at the University of Otago in 1970, and a PhD thesis on music at University of Canterbury in 1982. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Cloth-bound volume, 35 x 26 cm. Provenance: Originally part of the Otago University Music Department collection. How it came to be in their collection is unknown.

Date: 1997-1999

From: Body, John Stanley (Jack), 1944-2015: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12210-262

Description: - Correspondence, programmes, minutes and project notes (1997-1999) related to development of Beat International Gamelan Festival, 1999. Source of title: title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter, including photocopies with annotations

Date: [1979-1989]

From: Farquhar, David Andross, 1928-2007 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-7564-6

Description: Biographical and bibliographical papers and correspondence. Includes refrerence to Shakespeare Music Catalogue published by the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1980-2002]

From: Carr, Edwin James Nairn, 1926-2003 : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7710-15

Description: Correspondents entered under Name below Other Titles - Lord Arthur Saville's Crime; a comic opera, libretto after Wilde by Edward Hill Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 3 Apr 1942

By: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001; University of Otago. Department of Music

Reference: fMS-Papers-6394

Description: Responsibility - `For my mother Rosamund Lilburn' Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph [1], 6 pages Provenance: Given to John M Thomson by John Steele to deposit at the Turnbull Library. Douglas Lilburn wrote to John Steele that this was composed for C Foster Brown, Choirmaster of Christchurch Cathedral, who possibly then gave it to Dr Victor Galway of the University of Otago. John Steele said that it just came to light from there.

Date: 1964-1966

From: Milner, Ian Frank George, 1911-1991 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4567-005

Description: Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes copies of outward letters to Mrs Amis, Fred, Max (possibly Max Harris), Leonard and Marilou, Ken [?] Smith of the Exeter College of Art, Professer Schlosser, Mr Bianchi, correspondence re books with various agencies; letter from [?] Blackwood Paul; poem, `Twice sixty' by Brasch, Wai-te-ata Press (Aug 1965). Language - Letter in Czech Quantity: 1 folder(s).