MS 7979
Records of the National Music Camp Association


PLEASE NOTE: This is an incomplete list of holdings. Please contact the Manuscripts Section for deails.

Addition 22 January 1991

Files on National Music Camps

    Box 37

    1954-62
    Works performed at national camps, 1956

    Box 38

    1963-68

    Box 39

    1969-73

    Box 40

    1974-79
    1982 (volume 1)

    Box 41

    1982 (Volumes 2 and 3)

    Box 42

    1983-85

    Box 43

    1986

    Box 44

    1986
    1987 Camp:

    • Pending Lists
    • Info
    • Accommodation
    • Advertising
    • Auditions

    Box 45

    1987 Camp:

    • Budgets
    • Conductor
    • Design and print Equipment
    • Fees
    • Festival of Sydney
    • General Correspondence
    • Invitations
    • Invite/Reject letters

    Box 46

    1987 Camp (continued):

    • Junior Host/Hostesses
    • Mailing Lists
    • Masters (2 files)
    • Memoranda
    • Reserve Call-ups
    • Publicity
    • Repertoire

    Box 47

    1987 Camp (continued):

    • Peter Seymour
    • Staff
    • Subsidies
    • TV/Radio
    • Trainee Conductors
    • Travel
    • Tutors
    • Venue
    • Withdrawals
    • Young Composers

    Box 48

    1987 Camp: Files arranged by musical instrument

    Box 49

    1987 Camps and Sydney Season
    Auditions for 1987
    Reports
    Application forms for A.Y.O. Eastern States Tour, 1987 (see also Box 64)

    Box 50

    1988 Camp:

    • Accommodation
    • Advertising
    • Auditions
    • Auditions - 'Over age'
    • Auditions by tape
    • Burdekin
    • Conductor
    • Design and print
    • Equipment
    • Fees
    • General Correspondence
    • Invitations
    • Tutors' Reports A-Z (2 files)

    Box 51

    1988 Camp (cont):

    • Pending
    • Publicity
    • Repertoire
    • Reserve callups
    • Scholarship
    • Scholarships - Lindley Evans
    • Scholarships - Boosey and Hawkes
    • Scholarships - Victoria League
    • Sponsorship
    • Subsidies - Family
    • Subsidies - Travel
    • Staff
    • Student Information
    • Trainee Conductors; TV/Radio
    • Tutors
    • Venue
    • Withdrawals
    • Young Composers
    • Special diets (empty)

    Box 52

    1988 Camp (cont):

    • Junior host/hostesses, badges, first-time campers.
    • Logos
    • Masters
    • Orchestra Personnel
    • 1988 Lists

Australian Youth Orchestra

    Box 53

    1958-66

    Box 54

    1967-70

    Box 55

    1971-75

    Box 56

    AYO Rostrum, 1975
    AYO 1976, USA (3 folders)
    1977-78
    1979 (2 folders)

    Box 57

    1980-82
    1982 (2 volumes)

    Box 58

    1983, including File '14' (3 folders)
    1984 European Tour:

    • Fund Raising
    • Melbourne
    • Yugoslavia
    • Wales/England, Netherlands, Belgium

    Box 59

    AYO European Tour, 1984 (cont):

    • France, Edinburgh
    • London
    • API Travel, Budget, Circulars, Design, Print
    • Conductors/Soloists
    • Invitations/Itinerary

    Box 60

    AYO European Tour, 1984 (cont):

    • Staff
    • Students
    • Special travel, Passports, Uniforms
    • Background Information (2 folders)
    • Original letters/Budget distribution; Aberdeen, Rumania, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, Austria.
    • Accounts (i)

    Box 61

    AYO European Tour, 1984 (cont):

    • Accounts (ii) and (iii)
    • Planning
    • Gala Farewell Concert

    Box 62

    1985 (5 folders)

    Box 63

    AYO Second Season, 1986:

    • AYO/ACO Tapes
    • A.C.O.
    • Circulars
    • Correspondence
    • Contracts
    • Personnel
    • Billets
    • Budget
    • Conductor
    • Equipment
    • General Correspondence
    • Invitations
    • Itinerary
    • Masters
    • Press and Publicity
    • Soundsense
    • Travel
    • Tutors and Staff
    • Venues

    Box 64

    1986/87 (4 folders) See also Box 49
    1987 - CSF Forms (4 folders)

    Box 65

    Poland, 1986
    'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987:

    • Personnel
    • Equipment
    • Budget
    • Conductor
    • Allen, Allen and Hemsley
    • Pending
    • General Correspondence
    • Masters
    • Repertoire

    Box 66

    'Australia Take a Bow' (Cont):

    • Soundsense
    • Members Release Forms
    • Tertiary Institutions
    • Venue

    Beethoven 9:

    • Pending
    • A.C.O.
    • Budget
    • Equipment
    • Invitations
    • Masters
    • Publicity
    • S.P.S.
    • Travel
    • Venue

    Box 67

    AYO 1988 - Orchestra Personnel

    Australia Day, 1988:

    • Masters
    • Invitations
    • General Correspondence
    • C.F. Cillario
    • Budget
    • Conductor (Zukerman)
    • Billet
    • Billet Response
    • NSW Bicentennial Committee
    • Festival of Sydney/Bicentennial Committee
    • Pending (3 files)
    • Publicity
    • Programme

    Box 68

    Australia Day, 1988 (cont):

    • Sculthorpe
    • Repertoire
    • Schedule
    • Soloists
    • Staff
    • TV Broadcasts
    • Travel
    • Venue

    1988 Tour
    Parliament House Opening: Contracts, General file.
    Bi-Centenary Youth Orchestra (planning file, 1985-86)

    Box 69

    Verdi - Messiah, 1988

    Easter 1988:

    • Old notes
    • Invitations
    • Billets
    • Equipment
    • Payments
    • Masters
    • Orchestra Personnel; (3 files)
    • Orchestra mailout
    • Press, publicity (2 files)
    • Programme
    • Repertoire
    • Schedule
    • Staff/Sydney Philharmonia/Travel
    • Production
    • Venue

    Box 70

    AYO General:

    • Stage layouts
    • Recording and film (3 folders)
    • Correspondence, rosters, 1971
    • Miscellaneous programs

State Camps

    Box 71-72

    National Music Camp of South Australia: membership cards, financial records, newsletters, minutes of students' association, details of minicamps, notices, correspondence, 1967-83
    NMCA (Vic) Newsletters

    Box 73

    National Camps - General file
    Guidelines for State Camps
    NSW State Camp Information, May Music Camp 1975-76 (3 folders)
    State Camps, 1977-78
    State Camps - miscellaneous

International

    Box 74

    Asian and Malaysian music camps

    Box 75-76

    Files on World Orchestra and Jeuneses Musicales, 1985-88

General Administration

    Box 77

    Correspondence register, 1975-82
    Council, 1979
    Financial accounts, working papers, 1981-82
    Information on photocopier machines which were tried Oct/Nov 1982

    Box 78

    Financial/working papers, 1983-84
    Computer, 1983
    1984 Youth Orchestra; 1985 meeting
    Various papers, 1981-84

    Box 79

    'For sorting,' 1984
    Letters, 1985-86
    Youth Orchestra Meeting, 1985
    Arts Grants Committee, 1985
    Permanent Site, 1986
    Youth Concession Ticket Scheme
    Working Papers, 1985

    Box 80

    Executive minutes, 1982-84
    Correspondence re Youth Orchestra festivals, 1986
    Hartley Computer, 1986
    AGAC, 1986
    Sydney Office, 1987
    Hartley Training, 1985-87
    General, 1984-88
    Notes and reports from tutors, 1986
    Advertising rates, 1986

    Box 81 Personnel files

    Secretary, 1986
    Barbara Walton, (P.R) 1984
    Margaret Lioi, (Internship), 1983
    Inta Vigants, 1981-82
    Secretary to Administrator, 1973
    Staff/Casuals, 1984
    Administrative assistant, 1981-2 (3 files)
    Administrator, 1986 (2 files)

Council, Membership

    Box 82

    Council Minutes, 1985-86
    Council and Executive minutes 1986
    Council membership, 1986
    Members of the Association, 1979-86
    Council correspondence, 1982-84, 1986-87 (2 folders)

    Box 83

    Financial records, 1969-72, 1978-84

    Box 84

    Payment vouchers, 1987

    Box 85

    Financial accounts: 1978, 1981-83
    Financial statements, 1980-81
    Finance committee, 1981-83
    Ledger, 1986-83
    Working papers, 1986 (including financial acounts)
    Accounts, 1985-86 (including Articles of Association, Dec 1978)
    Box 86 Fund Raising

    Fund Raising Appeal, October 1980
    Friends, AETT, 1974-80 (see also Box 90)
    NMCA Trust Records, Fund Raising etc, 1962-71
    Fund raising, 1982-83
    Appeal, Trust Fund
    Utah Foundation, 1981-82
    Pioneer Electronics, 1981

Day Files

    Box 87

    April 1985 - November 1986

    Box 88

    December 1986 - July 1987
    Subsidies, Family Relationship Travel - Camp 88
    Campers' Assessments 1988 (A-Z) - 2 folders

    Box 89 Commissions, Scholarships, Publishing

    • Qantas, 1988
    • Commissions; Koehne, Conyngham, Vine, Katz, Christopher Symons' book on Bishop (2 folders)
    • Scholarship donations, 1984
    • Publishers/ings: June Epstein - author, Various, grant applications (4 folders)
    • Concert pitch pre-publication orders
    • Copy of June Epstein's Concert pitch

Subject files

    Box 90
    • ABC
    • Adelaide Spring Academy/Langbein String School, 1980-83
    • Australian National Music Council, 1981
    • Australian Music Centre, 1979-84 (3 files)
    • Canberra, 1976
    • Cocktail Concert and public concert programs, 1987
    • Carclew winter concerts, 1982-83
    • Carclew schedules, 1982-84
    • Friends, A.E.T.T., 1981-86 (see also Box 86)
    • ISME Festival Orchestra, 1987-88

    Box 91

    • Invitations, 1979-86
    • Library Cataloguing Project, 1984
    • Library, 1974-75
    • Library: Contra Bassoon
    • NMCA Instruments
    • Symphonic Wind Ensemble (1970; 1981-84)
    • Musica Viva, 1979-84
    • P.A.Y.O. Submission (Program of Assistance to Youth Organisations)1982-83
    • Peter Seymour, 1986
    • Skin and Cancer Research Foundation Concert
    • Unesco, IMC Organisation
    • Youth Orchestra Survey, 1975
    • Youth Music Forum, 1984
    • Youth Music Administrators' and Music Coordinators' Conference, 1983

Photographs

    Box 92

    1948, 1959
    Expo 1970
    Chinese Tour
    1974-75
    1981 and undated
    1984

    Box 93

    1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1958
    1960-64
    1965-68
    1969-73
    1974-77

    Box 94

    1974-84 (some duplicates)

    Box 95

    1980-85
    Unknown dates

Miscellaneous

    Box 96-97

    Press cuttings, articles, newsletters

    Box 98

    Files on artists:

    • Dr Chaiyabbat - Bangkok Symphony Orchestra
    • Wilfried Brettcher, Chief Conductor 1985
    • Christopher Seaman
    • Denis de Coteau - Music Director and Conductor
    • Sir Charles Mackerras
    • Conductor Biographies - various
    • Tony Charlton
    • Ronald Zollman - Conductor
    • Roy Rimmer
    • AYO Guest Lists

    Box 99

    • CAPPA, 193-87 (4 folders)
    • Miscellaneous (1 folder): photocopied scores, list of works in the repertoire of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, poster, certificates

    Box 100-101

    Programs

    Box 102-104

    Card indexes of attendees at camps:

    1955-64 (x 2) arranged by musical instrument
    1974-84, A - E, F - M, N - Z
    1969-74 A - Z (AYO)