The 13th Intervarsity Choral Festival: SYDNEY, 22-31 May 1962
Camp Venue: Yarramundi YMCA and Castlereagh Teachers’ College camps, Richmond<
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Participants: AUCS, MUCS, MonUCS, NEUCS, QUMS, SUMS, TUCS, UWAUCS
=== COMMITTEE ===
Convenor: Grantley Chaplin<
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Secretary: Amber Beck, Gay Wilson<
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ConMan: Peter Wagner<
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Publicity: Lindy & Peter Watts<
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Camp Officer: Lindy & Peter Watts<
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Transport: Amber Beck<
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Billeting: Ailsa Jernier
=== CONCERT ===
30 & 31 May, Great Hall, University of Sydney<
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Conductor: Gordon Spearritt, Bryan Dowling, Gordon Spearritt, Lewis Dawe, John Gordon, John Winstanley, Rex Hobcroft, John Winstanley<
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Soloists: Elizabeth Arnold, Richard Barnard<
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Program: Vivaldi ''Gloria'' (QUMS); Josquin ''Cueurs desolez'', ''Plaine de dueil'', Pierre de la Rue ''Autant en emporte le vent'' (MUCS); Janequin ''Se moys de may'', Sermisy ''Au joli boys'', ''Mauduit Voici le verd et beau may'', Arcadelt ''Margot, laburez les vignes'' (QUMS Madrigal Group); Victoria ''O quam gloriosum'', Wilbye ''Sweet Honey Sucking Bees'' (AUCS); John Gordon ''Three Fables of Aesop'' (SUMS); Haydn ''“Awake the Harp”'' and ''“Achieved is the Glorious Work”'' from ''The Creation'' (SUMS); James Penberthy ''Bedlam Hills'' (TUMS); Brahms ''“Behold, All Flesh”'', ''“How Lovely are Thy Dwellings”'' and ''“For we Have no Abiding City”'' from ''A German Requiem'', Vaughan Williams ''Dona Nobis Pacem'' (combined), ''Gaudeamus Igitur''<
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Notes: Intervarsity Festival Orchestra. SUMS accompanist: Christopher Burrell. Penberthy and Gordon works were written especially for performance at the festival.<
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Review: G. v. R. “Inter-varsity choir concert”, Sydney Morning Herald, n.d. “In a program consisting largely of sixteenth-century music, students from Adelaide, Melbourne, Monash, New England, Queensland, Sydney, Tasmania and Western Australia universities exhibited a technical competence rarely matched by a thorough awareness of the varying styles and idioms under consideration … [QUMS] produced tone of unusual clarity, strength and balance, marred only by a certain breathiness in the altos and the usual verbal unintelligibility from all … [In the combined work,] the size and quality of the resulting tone was impressive quite by itself, but … there were passages of great musical beauty and impressiveness as well.”<
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A.K. [Anthony Kendall?], “Concerts – Sydney”, Canon, vol.15, no.11 (June 1962), p.27. “The Inter-varsity Choral Festival which took place in the Great Hall … proved to be quite an event. Students … sang with considerable competence and vocal effectiveness. Each choir contributed a specially selected item after which the eight university choirs assisted by the Inter-varsity Festival Orchestra participated in an impressive performance of Dona Nobis Pacem under the impressive direction of John Winstanley. I think Vaughan Williams would have been pleased with the result.”
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