The 41st Intervarsity Choral Festival: PERTH, 20 January-4 February 1990

Patron: Emeritus Prof. Sir Frank Callaway, Mr David Blenkinsop (Director, Festival of Perth)
Chorusmaster: Martin Rowden, Robert Kay, Serena Kay
Accompanist: Marie-Louise Sermon, Tonya Healey
Camp Venue: Cunderdin Agricultural College
Participants: AUCS, SCUNA, DUS, FUCS, MUS, MUCS, MonUCS, PUCS, QUMS, SUMS

COMMITTEE

Convenor: Geoff Garside
Secretary: Serena Kay
Treasurer: Darral Garside
ConMan: Tonya Healey
Publicity: Allan Veal
Librarian: Jud Horner
Camp Officer: Louise Jones
Transport/Billeting: Bill Brennan-Jones
Social Sec: Digby Hill
Fundraising: Kerri Cooper
Minutes Sec: Sue Hayes
Convenor’s Ass: Rosalind Lawson

CONCERT

8pm, 3 February, Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia Conductor: John Grundy
Soloists: Sara Macliver, Lisa Brown, Megan Sutton, Alexander Platts, Andrew Foote
Program: Gaudeamus igitur; Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg; Holst: Hymn of Jesus; Colin Brumby: Three Baroque Angels; Handel: Dixit Dominus
Notes: With the Western Australian Youth Orchestra
Review: Dita Gevans, “Youthful show of fine form”, West Australian, 8 Feb. 1990, p.49. “The 41st Intervarsity Choral Festival ended with the Festival Choir and the WA Youth Orchestra joining forces in a concert that was sold out. The choir – 150 singers from several Australian university choirs – produced an expansive and mellow sound based on well-controlled dynamics and carefully shaded tone colour. More attention could have been paid to clearer diction … The choir coped remarkably well [in the Handel], particularly during the final movement. Throughout the evening the WA Youth Orchestra not only proved the ideal support for the singers but also showed exceptional skill …”

OTHER COMMENTS

Festival followed by “Got-to-go-to-Rotto”, 7-14 Feb. Steering committee was Mark Gummer, Michelle Mearns, Anna Napier and Claire Whitaker.