MS 7979
Records of the National Music Camp Association


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Scope and content note

Records

1948-88

14.56 m. (104 boxes)

Available for reference

The collection was donated to the National Library in two instalments, 1990 and 1991.

Historical note

Non-profit organisation which organises each year a National Music Camp, a season of the Australian Youth Orchestra, and state and regional camps.  The first camp was held at Point Lonsdale,  Victoria in 1948.  The Australian Youth Orchestra was formed in 1957.

The National Music Camp changed its name to Australian Youth Orchestra, then Youth Music Australia.  It is currently known as the Australian Youth Orchestra.

Related collections

Ronald Maslyn Williams         MS 3939

Papers of Ruth Alexander and John Bishop are held at the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide.

Inventory of first instalment

Box1          Historical material

Folder

1              Early applications for the first camp in 1948.

                Circulars, reports from the first camp (Port Lonsdale)

2             Issues of student magazine Musica fever (1948), brochures, cuttings, circulars, 1948-56

3            Brochures, circulars, copy of certificate of incorporation, report by

              National Fund Raising Council of Australia 1960-70.

4            Early brochures, campaign plans for National Music Camp

              Appeal

5           Copies of Musica fever, minutes, correspondence, brochures 1952-53.

              Draft of an article on the function of music camps.

6            Correspondence by Elder Conservatorium of the University of Adelaide

              (Professor John Bishop), agenda, lists of tutors and students (1953),

               relating to split from National Fitness Council.

7           Papers on split from National Fitness Council, 1953-54

8          Papers on the formation of NMCA, including draft constitution and

             minutes and agenda relating to International Music Camp, repertoire lists.

Box 2         Historical material (continued

9-10            Press clippings, papers on formation of Australian Youth Orchestra 1956

                   and Music Camp material 1954-57.

11               Material including application forms for AYO 1958 and list of members.

                   Correspondence with students.

                   Appeals

12-13          Lists of donors, circulars, receipts, 1962.

14-16          Correspondence, campaign bulletins, inaugural dinner

Box 3         Appeals (continued)

17-18          Appeal and Trust Fund established to look after the money, 1964

19               List of people in South Australia who donated to the Appeal.

20               Friends of Music Camp 1972 and earlier.

21               Friends and list of Associate Members, 1968-72

22               Photographs: St Peter’s, Adelaide, 1986, showing everybody who attendrd

                   Camp.  Geelong Grammar group, 1958, Ernest Llewellyn conducting.

23               Minutes and papers relating to finance.  Camp lists 1957-68.

24-25          Accounts, minutes, agenda, correspondence 1963.  Lists of staff, Music

                   Camp 1953 (Geelong Grammar)

Box 4         Australian Youth Orchestra

26-27          Correspondence May 1958 – December 1959

28               Correspondence, talks, lists of members, 1959

29               Correspondence 1960-62

30               Correspondence, lists of AYO hosts, 1964

Box 5         NMCA correspondence

31-33          Letters, 1953-55, covering period concerned with actual setting up of

                   NMCA as private company.

34-36          Correspondence, 1958-59

37               Correspondence, 1960-61

Box 6         Correspondence

38-39          1962

40               1964-65

41               Articles, lists of staff and applicants, reports, photographs, 1964

Binder        Council correspondence, 1972-81

Box 7         State Camps

                   Correspondence, circulars, programs, financial records, Western Australia

1968-80

                   Victorian State Camp, 1965-81

                   NSW State Camp, 1966-68, 1974-79

Box 8         State Camps (continued)

                   South Australian State Camp, 1967-80.

                   Fund Raising

                   Correspondence, accounts, 1977-78

                   Student Associations

                   All states, 1974

Box 9         Numbered files

Folder

42-44          1. 1954-1955.  Includes mock-up of title frame for Australian National

                   Film Board presentation on the Music Camp, 1949

45-48          2. March 1954-January 1955.  Dispute with National Fitness Camp over

                   funds.  First proposal for establishment of Australian Youth Orchestra,

                   1954.  Fund-raising campaign.  First patrons.  Staff appointments 1954.

                   Creation of a student association (student criticism).  Asian students.

Box 10       Numbered files (continued)

49-51          3. Staff and student lists and application forms 1955 (for the camp that

                   was cancelled due to the outbreak of polio).

52-55          4. March 1955-March 1956.  Correspondence, accounts.

Box 11       Numbered files (continued)

56               5.  Application forms 18/5/56 – 27/5/56.

57-58          Applications from people who could not come in May but wished to come

                   in January.  Some correspondence.

59-62          6. Correspondence between Ruth Alexander and Lin Evans.  Frensham

                   Camp – letters of appreciation from students and other camp (Bonegilla).

                   Letters to tutors etc. from Ruth Alexander, 1/4/56 – 3/3/57

Box 12       Numbered files (continues)

63-65          7. 1957 Australian Youth Orchestra.  Ordinary applications for AYO

                   Camp, followed by applications for scholarships.  (The student assoc-

                   ition tried to raise money for a scholarship to sponsor people to go to

                   Camp).

66-68          8. Correspondence 1957-58 leading up to Camp.  Accounts, statements,

                   applications for 1958 camp dated 1957.  Roma Cooper is by now on the

                   staff.

69               Application forms and letters for 1958 camp.

Box 13       Numbered files (continued)

70               9. Letters 31/5/58 – 1/4/59, Easter Fest, Australian Youth

                   Orchestra, Melbourne.

71               Application forms for Fest, 1958

72-73          Minutes of meetings held October 1957 at Frensham.  Council letters

                   January 1958.  Minutes and letters about AYO, September 1958.

74-75          10. 1/4/58 – 31/3/59.  Correspondence on camp at Frensham, Mittagong.

76-77          Applications and correspondence for Frensham camp.

Box 14       Numbered files (continued)

78               11. Applications for Australian Youth Orchestra, 1959

79               Correspondence 1959-60, Australian Youth Orchestra

80               Correspondence Ruth Alexander and Lin Evans

81               General correspondence, AYO, 1959

82               Applications, 1960 Australian Youth Orchestra

83-84          12. 1959-60 January Camp

                   Correspondence with Bernard Heinz.

85-86          Applications for 1960 camp.

Box 15       Numbered files (continued)

87-89          13. 1960, including correspondence with ABC Federal Music Section.

                   1960-61 – preparations for Australian Youth Orchestra 1961

90-91          Applications for AYO 1961.  Students’ letters (note: John Bishop’s letters

                   have been retained by Ruth Alexander).

92-93          14. Hobart Camp April 1960 – March 1961.  (In January 1961 Camp went

                   to Hobart which needed organised flights, whereas before, participants

                   travelled independently).

94-96          Correspondence leading up to Hobart 1961; applications.

Box 16       Numbered files (continued)

97-101        15. Correspondence 1/4/61 – 31/3/62, including 1962 AYO.  Also

                   with ABC, Adelaide Festival, for AYO 1962.

                   Lloyd Davies correspondence, also Lin Evans.

                   Students’ Association correspondence 1962.

102-104      16. First correspondence about May camps 1962 and 1963.  April

                   1961 – May 1962 (also about fund raising).

Box 17       Numbered files (continued)

105-106      17. Application forms only for camps and AYO Camp 1962

109-112      18. April 1962 – March 1963.  Correspondence with ABC.

                   Correspondence and applications for 1963 Geelong Camp.

Box 18       Numbered files (continued)

113-116      19. AYO 1963.  Applications and correspondence

117-120      20. April 1963 to March 1964, including Adelaide Camp

                   1964 and AYO 1964

Box 19       Numbered files (continued)

121-123      21. Camp applications 1964

124-126      22. Correspondence 1/4/64 – 31/8/65.  AYO 1965

Box 20       Numbered files (continued)

127-130      23. April 1964 – August 1965.  Music Camp 1965.  Includes tribute to

                   John Bishop and Percy Jones. 

                   May camps in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

131-133      Correspondence 1/9/65 – 31/8/66.  Includes financial statement.

                   Associate membership begins.

Box 21       Numbered files (continued)

134-137      25. Correspondence 1/9/65 – 31/8/66

138-142      26. September 1966 – August 1967.  Music Camp St Peter’s 1967.

                   General correspondence 1966-67

Box 22       Numbered files (continued)

143-146      27. AYO 1967-68

147-149      28. September 1967 – August 1968.

Box 23       Numbered files (continued)

                   29. Not received

150-153      30. Students’ Association, 1967-71

Box 24       Numbered files (continued)

154-156      31. Correspondence 1968-69, AYO

157-159      32. Correspondence September 1968 – August 1969.

                   Geelong Grammar Canberra.  California Youth Orchestra.

Box 25       Numbered files (continued)

160-163      33. September 1969 – August 1970, Music Camp.

164-166      34. Expo 1970 – early planning, minutes.

Box 26       Numbered files (continued)

167-169      35. Expo 1970.  ATO correspondence including some photographs.

170-172      36. Expo July 1970.  Canberra, Qantas.  Insurance.  Osaka, Manila.

Box 27       Numbered files (continued)

173-175      37. Frensham Camp 1971.

176-180      38. AYO Brisbane1971.  General correspondence 1970-1971.

Box 28       Numbered files (continued)

181-183      39. General Association correspondence, 1971-72 (Audit Year).

40. Music Camp, 1972

[Note: From here on the numbered files are in bound volumes]

Box 29       Numbered files (continued)

                   41. AYO 1972

                   42. 1972-73 (1/9/72 – 31/8/73)

                                1. General Association

                                2. AYO 1973 (cancelled season)

                   43. 1973 January Camp, St Peter’s College, Adelaide.

Box 30       Numbered files (continued)

                   44. 1974 January Camp.

                   45. 1974 AYO, International Society for Music Education.

Box 31       Numbered files (continued)

                   46. 1975 January camp and AYO - ‘A’

                   .47. 1975 January camp and AYO – ‘B’

Box 32       Numbered files (continued)

                   48. 1975 AYO Asian Tour

                   49. 1975 AYO August Sydney Season.

Box 33       Numbered files (continued)

                   50. 1976 January camp – ‘A’

                   51. 1976 January camp ‘B’

Box 34       Numbered files (continued)

                   52. 1976 ATI

                   53. 1976 USA Tour

Box 35       Numbered files (continued)

                   54. and 55. 1977 January camp, Geelong.

Box 36       Numbered files (continued)

                   56. 1977 AYO, Melbourne, May; Sydney, August)

 

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

    1983-84

    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 (not sighted Feb 2010)

    Box 46

    1987 Camp (continued):

    • Junior Host/Hostesses
    • Mailing Lists
    • Masters (2 files)
    • Memoranda
    • ANOYMC personnel
    • 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
    • Travel
    • 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

    Camp, 1987

    Anthony Addell

    17th International JM comp

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

    Administrative, 1984-88

    The Chairman

     

    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)