The 40th Intervarsity Choral Festival: CANBERRA, 1 July-13 July 1989

Patron: Mrs Dallas Hayden, Sir Gordon Jackson
Chorusmaster: Ben Macpherson
Accompanist: Malcolm Tapscott, Mark Freer
Camp Venue: Birrigai
Participants: AUCS, SCUNA, DUS, FUCS, LaTUCS, MUS, MUCS, MonUCS, PUCS, QUMS, SUMS, TUMS
FIBS: HARMONIUM (Handbook Assisting Raucous Musicians Or Novices In Universal Merriment)

COMMITTEE/COLLECTIVE
Fundraising: Enrico Sondalini*
Secretary: Kate Pope
Treasurer: Mark Chapman
ConMan: Ingrid McKenzie
Publicity: Lan Wang
Librarian: Kate Rockpool
Camp Officer: James Crawford
Transport/Billeting: Sandra Kennedy
Social Sec: Diane Palmieri

* Ric was listed as Convenor in early correspondence, but later, when the committee was revised as a collective, he was re-titled Fundraising Officer. There was, therefore, no official convenor for the 40th IV.

CONCERT

8pm, 14 July, Llewellyn Hall, Canberra School of Music
Conductor: Hans Günter Mommer
Soloists: Jacqui Harrison, Natalie Charrington, Emma Woolford, David Stone, Alexander King
Program: Brahms Schicksalslied, Verdi Four Sacred Pieces, Kodály Missa brevis
Notes: Canberra Symphony Orchestra
Review: Margaret Legge-Wilkinson, “Spirited singing and enthusiasm add dynamics to festival”, Canberra Times, 19 July 1989, p.37. “Enthusiasm and spirited singing were the most noticeable elements in this concert … The choir heartily sang its way through the romantic works of Brahms and Verdi and the drama of Kodaly’s Missa Brevis. The brief nostalgic finale of Brahm’s [sic.] Song of Destiny (Op. 54) was given much emotive force by the Intervarsity Choir from the sustained, resonant, soft moments to the anguished cries of the agitato section. The choir managed the dramatic outbursts of the Verdi … in the Stabat Mater, however[,] some of the unaccompanied singing was a little tentative … [The Kodály] was the most dynamic [piece] of the program and was indicative of the festival’s success.”