[Music programmes 1940].

Includes programmes featuring:

[Undated] Musical recital by students of Miss M Johnston FTCL, assisted by Miss Olga Fryer, violiniste and Mrs Lionel Graham, soloist. Programme [1940s?]

Auckland Choral Society. Handel's "Messiah". Town Hall Auckland. 14 December 1940. Programme.

Centennial music competitions, choirs and string quartets dominion finals. Judge Mr Anderson Tyrer. Concert Chamber Town Hall Wellington. 2 August 1940. Souvenir programme. (2 copies)

Dunedin Centennial Music Festival, presented under the auspices of the National Centennial Music Committee (includes "Elijah" by Mendelssohn; "Faust" by Gounod; Symphony concert, orchestral concert, chamber concert and final festival concert by Centennial Choir).With Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, Raymond Beatty, Heddle Nash, Oscar Natzke, Frank Bermingham). Dunedin Town Hall. 11-20 May 1940. Souvenir programme (2 copies)

Ignaz Friedman, eminent Polish pianist. Pianoforte recital. Civic Theatre [Christchurch?], 30 October 1940. Programme

Masterton Orchestral Society. Second concert. Opera House Masterton, 16 October 1940. (With conductor Mr C W Kerry, soloist Mr R G Gilbert, male quartette Messrs Miller Hope, V Joseph, G Morgan, D J Irwin, pianist Miss G Greig, organist Mrs E Speight). Programme

National Patriotic Fund. Celebrity concerts. Conductor Anderson Tyrer. Town Hall Wellington. 27 April - 1 May 1940. Souvenir programme (2 copies)

Palmerston North Symphony Orchestra presents a celebrity concert in the Opera House on Tuesday 2nd July 1940. Assisting artists Frank Bermingham (bass baritone), Phyllis Ferguson (operatic soprano), Marie Moffatt (solo pianist). Hon Conductor Mr C L Mowlem. Programme.

Popular orchestral & carol concert by the National Broadcasting Service String Orchestra and the 2YA Concert Orchestra (augmented) with full chorus. Conductor Andersen Tyrer; leader Maurice Clare, assisted by Nanette Andersen Tyrer, Heddle Nash, Ken Macaulay, and the St James' Anglican Boys' Choir conducted by Harry Brusey. Accompanist Clement Howe. Town Hall Wellington, 21 December [1940]. Programme

St Patrick's Day celebrations. Grand concert. Town Hall Auckland. 18 March 1940. Programme.

Thanksgiving song service. Combined church choirs ands Centennial Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Anderson Tyrer. Centennial Music Week 24-29 June 1940. Programme.

Quantity: 11 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Provenance: From various sources. Celebrity concert programmes donated by Mrs G R Baillie in 1976, and by Mr I W Parker in 1976. Thanksgiving song service programme donated by Mr Paul Magill in 2001; one item donated in 2015 by Morva Croxson from the estate of Robert J Matthews.