• MIV1970

The 21st Intervarsity Choral Festival: MELBOURNE, 17 May-31 May 1970

Patron: Sir Robert Menzies, Most Revd Dr Frank Woods
Chorusmaster: Rex Hobcroft
Accompanist: John McCaughey, James Cotterell
Camp Venue: Guest houses and hotels in Queenscliff
Participatin Choirs: AUCS, SCUNA, FUCS, JCUNQCS, MMM, MUCS, MonUCS, NUCollMus UNCS, QUMS, SUMS, TUCS, UWAUCS

COMMITTEE

Convenor: Andrew Bunting
Secretary: Elspeth Macracken
Treasurer: John Olney
ConMan: Andrew Yuncken
Publicity: David Vines
Librarian: James Cotterell
Transport: Desmond Fitzgerald
Billeting: Andrew Lecky
Billeting: Liz Hastings
Social Sec: Anne Balfe
Minutes: Gerri Savage
MonUCS Rep: Jenni Kirby

CONCERT 1

8pm, 21 May, Queenscliff Town Hall
Program: included Bartók Four Slovak Folk Songs (QUMS)
Notes: Individual items concert

CONCERT 2

8.15pm, 29 May, Dallas Brooks Hall
Conductor: Rex Hobcroft; David Carolane
Soloists: Lauris Elms; Nance Grant, Brian Hansford
Program: Brahms Alto Rhapsody; German Requiem
Reviews: John Sinclair, Herald, 30 May 1970. “But I heard (unfortunately) the Deutsche [sic] Requiem, with all those choruses that struggle laboriously upwards only to collapse like punctured tyres. But the performance under David Carolane did all that could be done to rescue the work from its own banality. The choral singing was accurate, sensitive and nicely shaped …”. Linda Phillips, “University Choirs in Brahms Program”, Sun, 30 May 1970. “Despite his sincere treatment and skilled direction, Mr Carolane seemed disinclined to move the work on a little as it progressed. The choral singing was very musical and clear, though the words could have been better articulated …”

OTHER COMMENTS

This concert marked the 21st Intervarsity Choral Festival. Held under the auspices of the National Union of Australian University Students Aquarius Foundation, which was in turn in receipt of assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts. Photograph in the Sun, 27 May 1970, p.36; photograph of Janet Draper (SUMS), Age, 19 May 1970, p.3.