The 25th Intervarsity Choral Festival: ADELAIDE, 19 Aug.-31 Aug. 1974 Patron: Sir Mark Oliphant <
> Chorusmaster: Graham Dudley, Michael Goodwinn <
> Accompanist: Anne Quilty <
> Camp Venue: Holiday houses in Port Elliot, RSL Hall (rehearsals) and Town Hall (meals) <
> Participants: FUCS, AUCS, MUCS, MonUCS, UWAUCS, SUMS, TUMS, QUMS, UNCS, NUCS, SCUNA, MMM === COMMITTEE === Convenor: Matthew Mitchell<
> Secretary: Mary Davey <
> Treasurer: Peter Coppin<
> ConMan: Sue Lower <
> Public Relations: Mary Nettle <
> Librarian/Orchestra: Peter Ruys<
> Camp Officer: Michele Galazawski<
> Transport/Billeting: Andy Pearce<
> Social Sec: Julie Young<
> Minutes/Archives: Jacki Wesselingh <
> Resident Composer: Malcolm Fox <
> Cooks: Mary Davey, Paul Wilkins === CONCERT === 8pm, 31 Aug., Festival Theatre<
> Conductor: Graham Dudley; Michael Goodwinn<
> Soloists: Margaret Macpherson, Neville Hicks<
> Program: Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor, Malcolm Fox Three Steps in a Lush Lunar Foxtrot; Orff Catulli Carmina<
> Notes: Tape operator [Fox]: Tristram Cary<
> Review: Ralph Middenway, “Getting the best from amateurs”, n.p. 3 Sept., 1974. “Inter-varsity choral festivals are addictive, becoming for a time a way of life. The 25th annual festival culminated in a very full day in the Festival Theatre on Saturday with a long morning rehearsal and an outstanding evening concert. Choral singing can be tremendously satisfying. The proverbial bunch of amateurs can reach together a level of musical achievement ordinarily well beyond most of them as individuals. Conductors Grahame [sic.] Dudley and Michael Godwinn can be very please[d] with the high level of achievement on this occasion." <
> Helen Covernton, “260 voices raise belch”, n.p., 1 Sept. 1974. “Adelaide composer, Malcolm Fox , likes to entertain and also to shock – and he prefers to do it on a grand scale … In a sense [his new work]could be described as ‘the ultimate artistic chunda’. The work … ends with a finale of well orchestrated belches, stomach rumbles, and Bazza Mackenzie vomit noises. It is what he describes as ‘music theatre’ and is being presented under the auspices of the Inter-Varsity Choral Society [sic.] This event, held annually around Australia – has attracted hundreds of students to Adelaide." <
> James Renfrey, “Choirs in lush new work”, n.p., 3 Sept., 1974. “University choirs from all over Australia had their 25th get-together in the Adelaide Festival Theatre on Saturday night. This one will remembered for the commissioned work … a piece of unparalleled nonsense which clearly stamped the 28-year-old composer as a flourishing genius … For unbridled imagination, boldness, vigor and a certain robust vulgarity it couldn’t be improved upon … Of course his forces were first rate. University students are never noticeably reticent in behaviour when they are in the public eye and any lurking inhibitions were entirely shed on Saturday with telling results … It showed too that a sing-in is much more worthwhile than a sit-in when it comes to gaining goodwill and sympathetic ears.” === OTHER COMMENTS === Twenty-fifth Intervarsity Choral Festival, and celebrating the centenary of the establishment of the University of Adelaide. Small groups (workshops) were held at camp: Malcolm Fox “Found Sound”, Viv Steer “Recorder”, Ralph Middenway “Consort Music of the High Renaissance”, David Boehm “Jazz or Modern Fun Singing”, Barb Williams “Percussion”, Michael Goodwinn “Choral Conducting Technique”, Alan Crooks “Gilbert & Sullivan”, Robert Kay “Canon”, David Blight “Bach”, Eric Kowarski “Folk Harmony Singing”. Items from the workshops were given in two concerts: 8pm, 20 Aug. Port Elliot Town Hall; 8pm, 24 Aug., Victor Harbour. ---- ||'''Previous festival: [[PIV1973]] Next festival: [[SIV1975]]|| <>