The 16th Intervarsity Choral Festival: BRISBANE, 18-27 May 1965

Camp Venue: Tallebudgera National Fitness Camp, Gold Coast
Participating Choirs: AUCS, SCUNA, MUCS, MonUCS, NUCS, NEUCS, UNCS, SUMS, TUCS, TownsvilleUS, PNG, UWAUCS, QUMS

COMMITTEE

Convenor: Geoffrey Bray
Convenor: Else Budtz-Olsen
Treasurer: Peter Schmidt
Billeting: Else Budtz-Olsen
Billeting: Margaret Shaw
Catering: Diana Shogren

CONCERT

8pm, 26 May, Brisbane City Hall
Conductor: Prof. Brindley Newton John; Michael Wentzell; Graham Kerrison; Rex Hobcroft; Colin Brumby; Hugh Brandon
Soloists: Janet Delpratt, Gloria Ward, Sidney Patterson, Ian McKinley
Program: Britten Five Flower Songs (SUMS+NEUCS+UNCS+NUCS); Purcell Choruses from Come, Ye Sons of Art (MUCS+MonUCS); Gibbons Short Service (AUCS+SCUNA); Brahms Song of Destiny (TUCS+UWAUCS); Britten Choral Dances from ‘Gloriana’ (QUMS+TUS+PNG); Mozart Requiem; Gaudeamus Igitur. Notes: Org: Roger Marks; Piano: Rhonda Vickers.
Review: William Lovelock, “Varsity choirs enjoyable”, Courier-Mail, 27 May 1965, p.6. “Choirs from twelve Australian universities came together to give a concert which was thoroughly enjoyable and which reflected great credit on all concerned … [QUMS] achieved good ringing tone when needed with ample rhythmic vitality – though admittedly they had the advantage of greater numbers … [In the combined work,] Hugh Brandon … communicated his enthusiasm to his forces to a degree which produced some quite remarkable effects.”

OTHER COMMENTS

First international IV with two singers from Papua New Guinea. Photograph, Courier-Mail, 19 May 1965, p.1.