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Concert programmes
Atkinson, Jane Mary (Molly), 1909-2008 : Papers
Date: 1888-2005
By: Atkinson, Molly, 1909-2008
Reference: ATL-Group-00872
Description: Papers relating to Molly Atkinson's career as a singer and teacher include scrapbooks (1929-1955), photographs, programmes, newsclippings, radio scripts, music scores and items relating to her father, Karl Atkinson. Includes sound recordings of Molly Atkinson speaking about music. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 54 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 3 C60 cassette(s). 2 C90 cassette(s). 2 audiocassette(s). 1 C100 cassette(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Basic listing available. Provenance: Molly Atkinson gave some papers to Morva Croxson herself; others handed on by estate trustees Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into manuscripts, transfers made from here - From Published Sound Collection - Songs by Oscar Natzke, Mobil Song Quest 1963, When the saints go marching in, Wellington Schola Cantorum - From Sound and Music Centre - Patti singing `Batti batti' - To Photographic Archive - Photos relating to broadcasting and Karl Atkinson, musicians, Centennial `Faust' transferred 19 Dec 1988 (55 photos) - To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Molly Atkinson, including formal portraits and award ceremonies (lPAColl-0979 & PAColl-9407)l-0979 a. Processing information: some child records described
Martin, Charles Andrew, 1895-1960 : Papers
Date: 1819, 1914-1979
By: Martin, Charles Andrew, 1894-1960
Reference: MS-Group-0581
Description: Papers of Dunedin-born musician Charles Martin include music scores [1914-1936], scrapbook [1921-1944], letters [1931-1979] and various other papers Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 43 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Processing information: Some child records described
Totton, Geoffrey, fl 1989 : Papers and recordings
Date: 1801-1947; 1960s-1989
By: Totton, Geoffrey, active 1988-1990
Reference: ATL-Group-00746
Description: Papers collected by Geoffrey Totton relating to NZ jazz musicians, family papera. Sound recordings are of folk and jazz recorded in Auckland and include Poles Apart Folk Club, Karin Gorter, Gentle Annie, etc, 1981. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Arrangement: Audiocassettes availalbe at MSC-2375 to 2383 Quantity: 9 folder(s). 9 audiocassette(s). 0.09 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (some photocopies), Mss, printed matter
Salm ; for orchestra
Date: 1979
From: Cresswell, Lyell Richard, 1944-2022: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9802-2
Description: Programme of the Scottish National Orchestra performance, with newscutting reviews Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A83-016)
McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941- : Further papers
Date: 1981-[ca 1988]
From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection
Reference: 88-169
Description: Further papers of composer Jenny McLeod include correspondence, programmes and newsclippings Quantity: 1 wax box. 0.30 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Partial listing available. Processing information: Box is unsorted
Fisher, Helen Wynfreda, 1942- : Programme and brochure for Taku Wana
Date: [ca 1997-1998]
From: Fisher, Helen Wynfreda, 1942- : Collection
By: Fisher, Helen Wynfreda, 1942-
Reference: MS-Papers-6274
Description: Comprises annotated programme for `Taku wana; the enduring spirit', a musical production exploring the early history of European settlement in the Nelson region and relationships with Maori there; and brochure for production Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with holograph annoations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms H Fisher, Wellington, May 1998 Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Poster and brochure for Taku Wana - To Book Collections - Score for `Taku wana; the enduring spirit' by Fisher.
Pople, George Ross, 1945- : Programmes of the London Festival Orchestra
Date: 1989-1990
By: Pople, George Ross, 1945-
Reference: MS-Papers-10556
Description: Programmes of the London Festival Orchestra, directed by Ross Pople Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 items). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A90-320) Donated by Mr R Pople, London
Posters
Date: 1872-1877
From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 : Music scores, programmes and other papers
Reference: fMS-Papers-5291
Description: Posters of D A De Maus' entertainments at Crickmore's Assembly Rooms, Port Chalmers (1872) and at Foresters' Hall, Port Chalmers (1877) Physical Description: Printed matter
Grant, Colin Barron, 1918-1990 : Papers
Date: ca 1939-1955
By: Grant, Colin Barron, 1918-1990
Reference: MS-Papers-10596
Description: Papers, programmes, review and ephemera relating to Schola Cantorum and Phoenix Choir. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A90-400) Donated by Mrs J Whitcher, Lower Hutt
Programmes for concerts, operas, recitals etc in Egypt, Italy, London
Date: 1939-1949
From: Gray, John, 1918-2004 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9250-18
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Stoddart, Margaret Olrog 1865-1936 :Canterbury Women's Club. February 25 1920. Programme.
Date: 1920
By: Stoddart, Margaret Olrog, 1865-1934; Liverpool, Annette Louise Foljambe, Countess of, 1875-1948
Reference: A-234-013
Description: Programme of a concert, including violin, piano and cello solos and songs, dedicated to the wife of the Governor-General, the Countess of Liverpool. The outside cover of the programme comprises watercolours by Margaret Stoddart, showing a river and mountain scene in a tondo, against a background of a toitoi bush on the front, with a few branches of a thorny bush with yellow flowers and a spider's web on the back. The programme is held together with a brown silk ribbon. The performers (listed inside the programme) are Miss Paula Scherek (violin), Miss Eileen Lascelles (voice), Miss Agnes Lawlor (Piano), Madame Gower-Burns (voice), Miss Vera Mitchell (cello). Other Titles - Canterbury Woman's Club [inscribed in error on front cover] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - M.O.Stoddart. Canterbury Woman's Club. [date] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Three watercolours with Chinese white on one sheet of cream wove paper 255 x 415 mm (opened out and with irregular deckle edge); a fourth watercolour inside the front cover; the text of the programme glued inside; held together with brown silk ribbon tied in a bow. Transfers: From Book Collections - f920/P/LIV Lady Liverpool's Scrapbook, Vol. 9 p. 6 (loose in volume). - - Presented to Lady Liverpool at the concert; kept in her scrapbook, Vol 9, New Zealand and Pacific Collection f920/P/LIV; transferred to Drawings and Prints..
Programme, flyer and reviews
Date: 11 May 1990
From: Lion, Margaret, fl 1973-2004: Materials relating to `New Zealand Sounds' concert, St John's, Smith Square, London
Reference: MS-Papers-10576
Description: Programme, flyer and 2 reviews of concert organised by Margaret Lion entitled `New Zealand sounds', St John's Smith Square, London, 11 May 1990. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A90-377) Donated by Ms M Lion, London
Papers relating to Alfred Cortot
Date: 1946-[1950]
From: Cooper, Peter, 1918-2004 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7392
Description: Comprises letter from Alfred Cortot to Cooper (1946); programme of recital by Cortot in London (1947); and draft of piece by Cooper about Cortot (8 leaves) Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter Transfers: To Published Sound Collection - Six recordings, Peter Cooper pianist - To Sound and Music Centre - Three recordings.
Wood, Lionel John, 1944- : Papers relating to Washington Men's Camerata Concert
Date: May 2003
By: Wood, Lionel John, 1944-
Reference: MS-Papers-7766
Description: Comprises tickets, programme, braille playbill and large print playbill for Washington Men's Camerata concert given on 30 May 2003 at the Terrace Theatre, John F Kennedy Center at which Christopher Marshall's `Tihei, Mauri Ora!' premiered Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter and braille
NBR New Zealand Opera and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents John Adams' "The ...
Date: 2005
Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-2005-02
Description: Quantity: 1 Programme(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 26 pages, 297 x 210 mm.
New Zealand Music Awards, Onehunga Community Festival, Western Springs Stadium, and Kir...
Date: 1984, 1989-1990, 2004
From: Associated Theatre Services Ltd: Records
Reference: MS-Papers-12813-59
Description: Comprises records relating to tour planning, transport logistics, stage construction and lighting and hospitality requirements for New Zealand Music Awards (later called Aotearoa Music Awards), Onehunga Community Festival, Western Springs, and Kiri Te Kanawa. Includes correspondence, agreements and riders, itineraries, clippings and ephemera, and blueprints/plans of venues, stage sets, and lighting rigs. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Arrived to the Library in a transit box labelled "Box 5 of 5". Onehunga Community Festival received in Western Springs folder. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 20 colour copy photographic print(s) on A4 printer paper.
White, Nora Margaret, fl 1958 : Travel scrapbook
Date: 1947-1948, 1958
By: White, Nora Margaret, active 1958
Reference: MSY-7122
Description: Travel scrapbook compiled by Miss White during her round trip from New Zealand to England in 1947-1948. White left Auckland aboard the `Rakaia' on 27 Mar 1947, arriving in London 30 Apr 1947. The first two items in the scrapbook are a summons for a King Neptune event aboard the `Rakaia' on 12 Apr 1947 and a beer coaster for Heineken beer from Colon, Panama. The next pages are filled with ephemera items collected from White's travels around the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe. Included are theatre programmes, postcards, photographs, admission passes, sketch maps, an invite to a Presentation Party at Buckingham Palace, horse race programme for Royal Ascot, tourist programmes and leaflets, menus, newspaper cuttings relating to Wimbledon tennis championships, London Olympic programmes (1948), Royal wedding programmes and newspaper cuttings of churches and cathedrals, and "Rimutaka Jockey Club" race programmes circulated as a shipboard event. White left London aboard the `Rimutaka' 13 Oct 1948, arriving in Wellington 22 Nov 1948. The latter part of the scrapbook records a journey by White to the Lambeth Conference in England in 1958. White was secretary to Anglican Archbishop Owen. Left Lyttelton 13 Mar 1958 arriving in London 13 Apr 1958. Sailed aboard the `Port Auckland'. Collected ephemera include postcards, programmes, tourist maps, booklets, invitations, guide books and an itinerary relating to White's travels in England, Italy and Venice. Also newspaper cuttings relating to the Lambeth Conference and postcards of various churches visited. On 17 Jul 1958 White launched the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand's vessel the `Waikare' in Glasgow. White's father C G White was a director of the Union Steamship Company in Wellington. Includes an invitation to the launch and telegrams from New Zealand. White sailed from London aboard the Shaw Savill Line ship `S.S. Athenic' on 11 Sep 1958, arriving in Wellington 13 Oct 1958. Shipboard records include a menu, passenger list, postcard of vessel and programmes for the "Athenic Jockey Club's" Atlantic meeting. Source of title - Supplied by Library Miss White made two visits to the United Kingdom in the 1940s and 1950s. She served as Anglican Archbishop Owen's secretary on the second trip. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, photographs, ephemera and printed material Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms D Holderness, Christchurch, Sep 2013
Laurian Club for Chamber and Orchestral Music: [Ephemera of octavo size. 1930s]
Date: 1932 - 1937
Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Laurian
Description: Includes: 1932: First concert of the Laurian Club, season 1932 (With Harold Beek, Dora Deal, Donald Woodward, Noel Newson, Frances Hamerton, Angus Gunter, J A Mercer, Ernest Empson, Hubert Carter, Althea Slack, Irene Morris, Mrs A H Bills, C R Moon). Radiant Hall, 28 June 1932. Programme British Composers' concert (With Miss Merle Miller, Irene Morris, Margaret Wilson, Maisey Ottey, Noel Cape-Williamson, C R Moon, Dora Deal, Harold Beck, Angus Gunter, J A Mercer, Florence Millar, Althea Harley Slack, Marjorie Chapman, Noel Newson). Radiant Hall, 27 October 1932. Programme 1933: First annual report and accounts for presentation at the annual meeting ... at Mr Harold Beek's Studio, 769 Colombo Street, 7 April 1933 First concert season 1933 (With Bessie Pollard, Hubert Carter, Irene Morris, Harold Beck, Joseph Mercer, J W Barsby, Althea Harley Slack, Dora Deal). Radiant Hall, 22 June 1933. Programme Bach, Beethoven and Brahms concert (With Angus Gunter, Maisie Ottey, Belle Renaut, Althea Harley Slack, Joseph Mercer, Irene Morris, Dora Deal, C R Moon, Harold Beck). Radiant Hall, 4 November 1933. Programme 1934: First concert, season 1934 (With Molly Hatherley, Hubert Carter, Norma Middleton, J A Mercer, Dora Deal, D W Woodward, Noel Newson, Irene Morris, Mrs C G M Boyce, Harold Beck, C H Smith, Maurice Withers, R Lindsay, C R Moon, Florence Millar, Margaret Wilson, Mrs A H Bills, Marjorie Chapman, Noel Cape-Williamson, Althea Harley Slack). Radiant Hall, 21 April 1934. Programme Second concert season 1934 (With Harold Beck, Rev Lawrence A North, Bessie Pollard, C R Moon, Dora Deal, Marjorie Chapman, Noel Newson, Althea Harley Slack, Mrs F S Grant, Noel Cape-Williamson). Radiant Hall, 17 November 1934. Programme 1935: Annual general meeting / annual report. Messrs Chas. Begg & Co., 25 February 1935. First concert, season 1935 (With Lillian Hanham, Irene Morris, Dora Deal, C R Moon, Donald Woodward, Norma Middleton, Noel Cape-Williamson, Mrs C G M Boyce, A E Hutton, M E Withers, C H Smith, D Glass, R Lindsay). Radiant Hall, 13 April 1935. Programme Second concert, season 1935 (With conductor Harold Beck (portrait), Frederick Bullock, Harry Glaysher, Irene Morris, C R Moon, Dora Deal, Nina Slater, Noel Cape-Williamson, Althea Harley-Slack, Irene Morris, Frederick Bullock, Noel Newson, Bessie Pollard, Greta Bills, Marjorie Chapman, Harry Ellwood, Mrs F S Grant, Valmai Moffatt). Radiant Hall, 23 November 1935. Programme 1937: First concert, season 1937 (With Victor C Peters, conductor; Mrs Walter B Harris, Lillian Harper, Irene Morris, A E Hutton, Bessie Pollard, Norma Middleton, Valmai Moffatt, Dora Deal, C R Moon, Noel Newson). Radiant Hall, 17 June 1937. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.
[Programmes for overseas concerts, music performances featuring New Zealand performers....
Date: 2010 - 2019
Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-NonNZ-2010/2019
Description: Includes: San Luis Obispo Symphony, music director Andrew Sewell. "Classics in the Cohan. 2017-2018 season. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 330 mm
[Ephemera of octavo size relating to music events held at New Zealand House, London. 19...
Date: 1969-1989
From: [Music ephemera and concert programmes of octavo size, for performances at New Zealand House, London]
Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-NZH-1969/1989
Description: Includes: 1969: New Zealand Music Society. Membership application form [designed by Peter Campbell, 1969] 1970: New Zealand Music Society. Wine & cheese party 20 May 1970; Lieder evening, 3 June 1970. Flier / ticket application form New Zealand Music Society. Membership application form [1970] New Zealand Music Society. Wine & music. New Zealand House, 24 September 1970. Ticket New Zealand Music Society. Peter Cooper, piano. New Zealand House, 7 October 1970. Ticket 1974: Pauline Drain (clarinet). Lunchtime concert, New Zealand House, 4 October 1974. Programme 1981: "Hotspur", by Gillian Whitehead and Fleur Adcock. With designs by Gretchen Albrecht. New Zealand High Commission London. [With] "Gemini"; Margaret Field (soprano), Peter Wiegold (director). Programme (consisting of three pieces; 2 copies of the biographical folded sheet) Michael Redshaw. Piano recital. Reception Hall, New Zealand House, 23 April [1981]. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.