Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Date
[1920-1997]
By
Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997
Reference
MS-Group-0134
Description

Collection mainly consists of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of Jensen's articles and columns for the period (1955-1987). Also includes correspondence, drafts for articles and scripts, programmes and other related miscellaneous papers (1941-1987). There are also music scores - one work by Jensen and two by Douglas Lilburn.

Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music

Source of title - Supplied

Quantity: 17 volume(s). 84 folder(s). 1.31 Linear Metres.

Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies and carbon copies)

Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs relating to Jensen's professional and personal life - To Photographic Archive - Two group photographs taken at the Cambridge Music School (n d).

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Format
17 volume(s), 84 folder(s), 1.31 Linear Metres, Scrapbooks, Personal correspondence, Scripts (Documents), Business correspondence, Clippings, Programmes, Manuscripts, Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies and carbon copies)
There are 101 items in total.
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There are 101 items in this group.
Manuscript

Scrapbook

Date: [1942-1943]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Reference: MSX-4612

Description: Scrapbook of programmes for Lunch-hour chamber music concerts, with some financial records Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Manuscript

Miscellaneous papers

Date: [1950-1982]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-5961-01

Description: Comprises `New Zealand listener' (16 Sep 1960); article by Frank Haden on Mexico (Dominion, 3 Dec 1982); `The News', a Mexico City newspaper (6 May and part of 11 May 1982); article by Jensen on demolition of His Majesty's Theatre, Auckland; article, `Christian Science monitor', `New Zealand: an ear for music' (24 Jun 1950); and `A Feast of fine chamber music' by J McNeish (Weekly news, 9 Sep 1953) Arrangement: Articles on Mexico from MS-Papers-5961-13 and on Cambridge Music Schools from MS-Papers-5961-18 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

BBC broadcasts to schools

Date: [1958-1959]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Reference: MSX-4606

Description: Booklets accompanying BBC broadcasts to schools series, `Adventures in music orchestral concerts', BBC sound and television broadcasts to schools' and 64th season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts programme (1958) Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Manuscript

Radio scripts

Date: [1949-1961]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5961-06

Description: Scripts for `Rebels of music', `Fingerprints of performance', `The Pleasures of music' and `Rarotonga revisited'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Jensen in the United Kingdom

Date: [1957-1959]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5961-24

Description: Correspondence, notes, programmes and other papers relating to time spent by Jensen in the United Kingdom; includes letters re work, official papers, correspondence with Associated-Rediffusion Ltd and the BBC re work possibilities, script by Joseph Cooper and scripts by Jensen. Also `TV times' (29 Aug 1958) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Cambridge music schools

Date: [1948-1986]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5961-18

Description: Programmes, articles and clippings re Cambridge Music Schools held at St Peters School, Cambridge Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Conferences in Finland and Mexico

Date: [1982-1987]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5961-13

Description: Correspondence and papers relating to invitation to Jensen to attend the 10th International Cervantes Festival in Mexico (1982) and to be part of the New Zealand-Finland Cultural Exchange Party (1987) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Lunch-hour chamber music scrapbook

Date: [1943-1945]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

Reference: MSX-4608

Description: Comprises programmes and financial notes Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Music score

Overtures to a Promenade audience ; for orchestra

Date: 1951

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

By: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997

Reference: fMS-Papers-5961-11

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

Music score

The Frogs

Date: [1960s?]

From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers

By: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997

Reference: fMS-Papers-5961-07

Description: Possibly incidental music for Aristophenes `The Frogs' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs