MS 7979
National Library of Australia
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Australian Youth Orchestra
- Title
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Records of the Australian Youth Orchestra
- Date Range
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1948 - 2012
- Collection Number
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MS 7979
- Extent
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24.51 metres (118 boxes + 5 cartons + 5 folio boxes + 2 archives boxes + 1 map folio)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The records in MS 7979 comprise early historical material, reports, brochures, cuttings, records relating to finances and appeals, photographs, Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) records, 1958-1988, including overseas tours, National Music Camp Association correspondence, 1953-1972, records on state camps, 1965-1980, numbered files, files on national music camps, 1954-1988, records on international camps, general administration records, 1973-1987, subject files, and other records (104 boxes).
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn464554).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Records of the Australian Youth Orchestra, National Library of Australia, MS 7979, [class number, box number and series and/or file number]'.
Ronald Maslyn Williams (MS 3939). Papers of Ruth Alexander and John Bishop are held at the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide.
Administrative History
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.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 7979. Original Consignmnent
Series. Historical material
Early applications for the first camp in 1948 (File 1) - Box 1
Circulars, reports from the first camp (Port Lonsdale) (File 1) - Box 1
Issues of student magazine Musica fever (1948), brochures, cuttings,circulars, 1948-56 (File 2) - Box 1
Brochures, circulars, copy of certificate of incorporation, report by National Fund Raising Council of Australia 1960-70 (File 3) - Box 1
Early brochures, campaign plans for National Music Camp Appeal (File 4) - Box 1
Copies of Musica fever, minutes, correspondence, brochures 1952-53 (File 5) - Box 1
Draft of an article on the function of music camps (File 5) - Box 1
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 (File 6) - Box 1
Papers on split from National Fitness Council, 1953-54 (File 7) - Box 1
Papers on the formation of NMCA, including draft constitution and minutes and agenda relating to International Music Camp, repertoire lists (File 8) - Box 1
Press clippings, papers on formation of Australian Youth Orchestra 1956 and Music Camp material 1954-57 (File 9_10) - Box 2
Material including application forms for AYO 1958 and list of members (File 11) - Box 2
Correspondence with students (File 11) - Box 2
Series. Appeals
Lists of donors, circulars, receipts, 1962 (File 12_13) - Box 2
Correspondence, campaign bulletins, inaugural dinner (File 14_16) - Box 2
Appeal and Trust Fund established to look after the money, 1964 (File 17_18) - Box 3
List of people in South Australia who donated to the Appeal (File 19) - Box 3
Friends of Music Camp 1972 and earlier (File 20) - Box 3
Friends and list of Associate Members, 1968-72 (File 21) - Box 3
Photographs: St Peter's, Adelaide, 1986, showing everybody who attended Camp. Geelong Grammar group, 1958, Ernest Llewellyn conducting (File 22) - Box 3
Minutes and papers relating to finance. Camp lists 1957-68 (File 23) - Box 3
Accounts, minutes, agenda, correspondence 1963. Lists of staff, Music Camp 1953 (Geelong Grammar) (File 24_25) - Box 3
Series. Australian Youth Orchestra
Correspondence May 1958 - December 1959 (File 26_27) - Box 4
Correspondence, talks, lists of members, 1959 (File 28) - Box 4
Correspondence 1960-62 (File 29) - Box 4
Correspondence, lists of AYO hosts, 1964 (File 30) - Box 4
Series. NMCA correspondence
Letters, 1953-55, covering period concerned with actual setting up of NMCA as private company (File 31_33) - Box 5
Correspondence, 1958-59 (File 34_36) - Box 5
Correspondence, 1960-61 (File 37) - Box 5
Series. Correspondence
1962 (File 38_39) - Box 6
1964-65 (File 40) - Box 6
Articles, lists of staff and applicants, reports, photographs, 1964 (File 41) - Box 6
Council correspondence, 1972-81 (File) - Box 6
Series. State Camps
Correspondence, circulars, programs, financial records, Western Australia 1968-80 (File) - Box 7
Victorian State Camp, 1965-81 (File) - Box 7
NSW State Camp, 1966-68, 1974-79 (File) - Box 7
South Australian State Camp, 1967-80 (File) - Box 7
Series. Fund Raising
Correspondence, accounts, 1977-78 (File) - Box 8
Series. Student Associations
All states, 1974 (File) - Box 8
Series. Numbered files
Note: From Box 29 on the numbered files are in bound volumes.
1. 1954-1955. Includes mock-up of title frame for Australian National Film Board presentation on the Music Camp, 1949 (File 42_44) - Box 9
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 (File 45_48) - Box 9
3. Staff and student lists and application forms 1955 (for the camp that was cancelled due to the outbreak of polio) (File 49_51) - Box 10
4. March 1955-March 1956. Correspondence, accounts (File 52_55) - Box 10
5. Application forms 18/5/56 - 27/5/56 (File 56) - Box 11
Applications from people who could not come in May but wished to come in January. Some correspondence (File 57_58) - Box 11
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 (File 59_62) - Box 11
7. 1957 Australian Youth Orchestra. Ordinary applications for AYO Camp, followed by applications for scholarships. (The student association tried to raise money for a scholarship to sponsor people to go to Camp) (File 63_65) - Box 12
8. Correspondence 1957-58 leading up to Camp. Accounts, statements, applications for 1958 camp dated 1957. Roma Cooper is by now on the staff (File 66_68) - Box 12
Application forms and letters for 1958 camp (File 69) - Box 12
9. Letters 31/5/58 - 1/4/59, Easter Fest, Australian Youth Orchestra, Melbourne (File 70) - Box 13
Application forms for Fest, 1958 (File 71) - Box 13
Minutes of meetings held October 1957 at Frensham. Council letters January 1958. Minutes and letters about AYO, September 1958 (File 72_73) - Box 13
10. 1/4/58 - 31/3/59. Correspondence on camp at Frensham, Mittagong (File 74_75) - Box 13
Applications and correspondence for Frensham camp (File 76_77) - Box 13
11. Applications for Australian Youth Orchestra, 1959 (File 78) - Box 14
Correspondence 1959-60, Australian Youth Orchestra (File 79) - Box 14
Correspondence Ruth Alexander and Lin Evans (File 80) - Box 14
General correspondence, AYO, 1959 (File 81) - Box 14
Applications, 1960 Australian Youth Orchestra (File 82) - Box 14
12. 1959-60 January Camp Correspondence with Bernard Heinz (File 83_84) - Box 14
Applications for 1960 camp (File 85_86) - Box 14
13. 1960, including correspondence with ABC Federal Music Section. 1960-61 - preparations for Australian Youth Orchestra 1961 (File 87_89) - Box 15
Applications for AYO 1961. Students' letters (note: John Bishop's letters have been retained by Ruth Alexander) (File 90_91) - Box 15
14. Hobart Camp April 1960 - March 1961. (In January 1961 Camp went to Hobart which needed organised flights, whereas before, participants travelled independently) (File 92_93) - Box 15
Correspondence leading up to Hobart 1961; applications (File 94_96) - Box 15
15. Correspondence 1/4/61 - 31/3/62, including 1962 AYO (File 97_101) - Box 16
Also with ABC, Adelaide Festival, for AYO 1962. Lloyd Davies correspondence, also Lin Evans.Students' Association correspondence 1962.
16. First correspondence about May camps 1962 and 1963; April 1961 - May 1962 (also about fund raising) (File 102_104) - Box 16
17. Application forms only for camps and AYO Camp 1962 (File 105_106) - Box 17
18. April 1962 - March 1963. Correspondence with ABC. Correspondence and applications for 1963 Geelong Camp (File 109_112) - Box 17
19. AYO 1963. Applications and correspondence (File 113_116) - Box 18
20. April 1963 to March 1964, including Adelaide Camp 1964 and AYO 1964 (File 117_120) - Box 18
21. Camp applications 1964 (File 121_123) - Box 19
22. Correspondence 1/4/64 - 31/8/65. AYO 1965 (File 124_126) - Box 19
23. April 1964 - August 1965. Music Camp 1965. Includes tribute to John Bishop and Percy Jones. May camps in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney (File 127_130) - Box 20
Correspondence 1/9/65 - 31/8/66. Includes financial statement. Associate membership begins (File 131_133) - Box 20
25. Correspondence 1/9/65 - 31/8/66 (File 134_137) - Box 21
26. September 1966 - August 1967. Music Camp St Peter's 1967. General correspondence 1966-67 (File 138_142) - Box 21
27. AYO 1967-68 (File 143_146) - Box 22
28. September 1967 - August 1968 (File 147_149) - Box 22
29. Not received (File) - Box 23
30. Students' Association, 1967-71 (File 150_153) - Box 23
31. Correspondence 1968-69, AYO (File 154_156) - Box 24
32. Correspondence September 1968 - August 1969. Geelong Grammar Canberra. California Youth Orchestra (File 157_159) - Box 24
33. September 1969 - August 1970, Music Camp (File 160_163) - Box 25
34. Expo 1970 - early planning, minutes (File 164_166) - Box 25
35. Expo 1970. ATO correspondence including some photographs (File 167_169) - Box 26
36. Expo July 1970. Canberra, Qantas. Insurance. Osaka, Manila (File 170_172) - Box 26
37. Frensham Camp 1971 (File 173_175) - Box 27
38. AYO Brisbane1971. General correspondence 1970-1971 (File 176_180) - Box 27
39. General Association correspondence, 1971-72 (Audit Year) (File 181_183) - Box 28
41. AYO 1972 (File) - Box 29
42. 1972-73, (1/9/72 - 31/8/73) (File) - Box 29
1. General Association (File) - Box 29
2. AYO 1973 (cancelled season) (File) - Box 29
43. 1973 January Camp, St Peter's College, Adelaide (File) - Box 29
44. 1974 January Camp (File) - Box 30
45. 1974 AYO, International Society for Music Education (File) - Box 30
46. 1975 January camp and AYO - 'A' (File) - Box 31
47. 1975 January camp and AYO - 'B' (File) - Box 31
48. 1975 AYO Asian Tour (File) - Box 32
49. 1975 AYO August Sydney Season (File) - Box 32
50. 1976 January camp - 'A' (File) - Box 33
51. 1976 January camp 'B' (File) - Box 33
52. 1976 ATI (File) - Box 34
53. 1976 USA Tour (File) - Box 34
54. and 55. 1977 January camp, Geelong (File) - Box 35
56. 1977 AYO, Melbourne, May; Sydney, August) (File) - Box 36
Class MS 7979. Consignment Added 22 January 1991
Series. Files on National Music Camps
Works performed at national camps, 1956 (File) - Box 37
1982 (Volume 1) (File) - Box 40
1982 (Volumes 2 and 3) (File) - Box 41
1986 Student reports (File) - Box 44
1987 Camp: Pending (File) - Box 44
1987 Camp: Lists (File) - Box 44
1987 Camp: Info (File) - Box 44
1987 Camp: Accommodation (File) - Box 44
1987 Camp: Advertising (File) - Box 44
1987 Camp: Auditions (File) - Box 44
1987 Camp: Budgets (File) - Box 45
1987 Camp: Conductor (File) - Box 45
1987 Camp: Design and print (File) - Box 45
1987 Camp: Equipment (File) - Box 45
1987 Camp: Fees (File) - Box 45
1987 Camp: Festival of Sydney (File) - Box 45
1987 Camp: General Correspondence (File) - Box 45
1987 Camp: Invitations (File) - Box 45
1987 Camp: Invite/Reject letters (File) - Box 45
1987 Camp: Junior Host/Hostesses (File) - Box 46
1987 Camp: Mailing Lists (File) - Box 46
1987 Camp: Masters (2 files) (File) - Box 46
1987 Camp: Memoranda (File) - Box 46
1987 Camp: Reserve Call-ups (File) - Box 46
1987 Camp: Publicity (File) - Box 46
1987 Camp: Repertoire (File) - Box 46
1987 Camp: Peter Seymour (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: Staff (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: Subsidies (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: TV/Radio (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: Trainee Conductors (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: Travel (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: Tutors (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: Venue (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: Withdrawals (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: Young Composers (File) - Box 47
1987 Camp: Files arranged by musical instrument (File) - Box 48
1987 Camps and Sydney Season (File) - Box 49
Auditions for 1987 Music Camp and AYO (File) - Box 49
Application forms for A.Y.O. Eastern States Tour, 1987 (see also Box 64) (File) - Box 49
1988 Camp: Accommodation (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Advertising (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Auditions (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Auditions - 'Over age' (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Auditions by tape (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Burdekin Conductor (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Design and print (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Equipment (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Fees (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: General Correspondence (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Invitations (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Tutors' Reports A-Z (2 files) (File) - Box 50
1988 Camp: Pending (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Publicity (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Repertoire (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Reserve call-ups (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Scholarship (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Scholarships - Lindley Evans (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Scholarships - Boosey and Hawkes (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Scholarships - Victoria League (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Sponsorship (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Subsidies - Family (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Subsidies - Travel (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Staff (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Student Information (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Trainee Conductors; TV/Radio (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Tutors (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Venue (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Withdrawals (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Young Composers (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Special diets (empty) (File) - Box 51
1988 Camp: Junior host/hostesses, badges, first-time campers (File) - Box 52
1988 Camp: Logos (File) - Box 52
1988 Camp: Masters (File) - Box 52
1988 Camp: Orchestra Personnel (File) - Box 52
1988 Camp: 1988 Lists (File) - Box 52
Series. Australian Youth Orchestra
AYO Rostrum, 1975 (File) - Box 56
AYO 1976, USA (3 folders) (File) - Box 56
1979 (2 folders) (File) - Box 56
1982 (2 volumes) (File) - Box 57
1983, including File '14' (3 folders) (File) - Box 58
1984 European Tour: Fund Raising (File) - Box 58
1984 European Tour: Melbourne (File) - Box 58
1984 European Tour: Yugoslavia (File) - Box 58
1984 European Tour: Wales/England, Netherlands, Belgium (File) - Box 58
1984 European Tour: France, Edinburgh (File) - Box 59
1984 European Tour: London (File) - Box 59
1984 European Tour: API Travel, Budget, Circulars, Design, Print (File) - Box 59
1984 European Tour: Conductors/Soloists (File) - Box 59
1984 European Tour: Invitations/Itinerary (File) - Box 59
1984 European Tour: Staff (File) - Box 60
1984 European Tour: Students (File) - Box 60
1984 European Tour: Special travel, Passports, Uniforms (File) - Box 60
1984 European Tour: Background Information (2 folders) (File) - Box 60
1984 European Tour: Original letters/Budget distribution; Aberdeen, Rumania, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, Austria (File) - Box 60
1984 European Tour: Accounts (i) (File) - Box 60
1984 European Tour: Accounts (ii) and (iii) (File) - Box 61
1984 European Tour: Planning (File) - Box 61
1984 European Tour: Gala Farewell Concert (File) - Box 61
1985 (5 folders) (File) - Box 62
AYO Second Season, 1986: AYO/ACO Tapes (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: ACO (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Circulars (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Correspondence (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Contracts (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Personnel (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Billets (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Budget (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Conductor (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Equipment (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: General Correspondence (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Invitations (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Itinerary (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Masters (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Press and Publicity (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Soundsense (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Travel (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Tutors and Staff (File) - Box 63
AYO Second Season, 1986: Venues (File) - Box 63
1986/87 (4 folders) See also Box 49 (File) - Box 64
1987 - CSF Forms (4 folders) (File) - Box 64
Poland, 1986 (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Personnel (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Equipment (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Budget (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Conductor (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Allen, Allen and Hemsley (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Pending (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: General Correspondence (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Masters (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Repertoire (File) - Box 65
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Soundsense (File) - Box 66
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Members Release Forms (File) - Box 66
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Tertiary Institutions (File) - Box 66
'Australia, Take a Bow,' 1987: Venue (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: Pending (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: ACO (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: Budget (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: Equipment (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: Invitations (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: Masters (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: Publicity (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: SPS (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: Travel (File) - Box 66
Beethoven 9: Venue (File) - Box 66
AYO 1988 - Orchestra Personnel (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Masters (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Invitations (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: General Correspondence (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: C.F. Cillario (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Budget (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Conductor (Zukerman) (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Billet (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Billet Response (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: NSW Bicentennial Committee (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Festival of Sydney/Bicentennial Committee (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Pending (3 files) (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Publicity (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Programme (File) - Box 67
Australia Day, 1988: Sculthorpe (File) - Box 68
Australia Day, 1988: Repertoire (File) - Box 68
Australia Day, 1988: Schedule (File) - Box 68
Australia Day, 1988: Soloists (File) - Box 68
Australia Day, 1988: Staff (File) - Box 68
Australia Day, 1988: TV Broadcasts (File) - Box 68
Australia Day, 1988: Travel (File) - Box 68
Australia Day, 1988: Venue (File) - Box 68
1988 Tour (File) - Box 68
Parliament House Opening: Contracts, General file (File) - Box 68
Bi-Centenary Youth Orchestra (planning file, 1985-86) (File) - Box 68
Verdi - Messiah, 1988 (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Old notes (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Invitations (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Billets (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Equipment (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Payments (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Masters (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Orchestra Personnel; (3 files) (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Orchestra mailout (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Press, publicity (2 files) (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Programme (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Repertoire (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Schedule (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Staff/Sydney Philharmonia/Travel (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Production (File) - Box 69
Easter 1988: Venue (File) - Box 69
AYO General: Stage layouts (File) - Box 70
AYO General: Recording and film (3 folders) (File) - Box 70
AYO General: Correspondence, rosters, 1971 (File) - Box 70
AYO General: Miscellaneous programs (File) - Box 70
Series. State Camps
National Music Camp of South Australia: membership cards, financial records, newsletters, minutes of students' association, details of minicamps, notices, correspondence, 1967-84 (File) - Box 71-72
NMCA (Vic) Newsletters. QYO - 'Tutti' (File) - Box 71-72
State Camps - General file (File) - Box 73
Guidelines for State Camps (File) - Box 73
NSW State Camp Information, May Music Camp 1975-76 (3 folders) (File) - Box 73
State Camps, 1977-78 (File) - Box 73
State Camps - miscellaneous (File) - Box 73
Series. International
Asian and Malaysian music camps, 1981 (File) - Box 74
Files on World Orchestra and Jeuneses Musicales, 1985-88 (File) - Box 75-76
Series. General Administration
Correspondence register, 1975-82 (File) - Box 77
Council, 1979 (File) - Box 77
Financial accounts, working papers, 1981-82 (File) - Box 77
Information on photocopier machines which were tried Oct/Nov 1982 (File) - Box 77
Financial/working papers, 1983-84 (File) - Box 78
Computer, 1983 (File) - Box 78
1984 Youth Orchestra; 1985 meeting (File) - Box 78
Various papers, 1981-84 (File) - Box 78
'For sorting,' 1984, AYO (File) - Box 79
Letters, 1985-86 (File) - Box 79
Youth Orchestra Meeting, 1985 (File) - Box 79
Arts Grants Committee, 1985 (File) - Box 79
Permanent Site, 1986 (File) - Box 79
Youth Concession Ticket Scheme (File) - Box 79
Working Papers, 1985 (File) - Box 79
Executive minutes, 1980-84 (File) - Box 80
Correspondence re Youth Orchestra festivals, 1986 (File) - Box 80
Hartley Computer, 1986 (File) - Box 80
AGAC, 1986 (File) - Box 80
Sydney Office, 1987 (File) - Box 80
Hartley Training, 1985-87 (File) - Box 80
General, 1984-88 (File) - Box 80
Notes and reports from tutors, 1986 (File) - Box 80
Advertising rates, 1986 (File) - Box 80
Personnel files: Secretary, 1986 (File) - Box 81
Personnel files: Barbara Walton, (Public Relations) 1984 (File) - Box 81
Personnel files: Margaret Lioi, (Internship), 1983 (File) - Box 81
Personnel files: Inta Vigants, 1981-82 (File) - Box 81
Personnel files: Secretary to Administrator, 1973 (File) - Box 81
Personnel files: Staff/Casuals, 1984 (File) - Box 81
Personnel files: Administrative assistant, 1981-2 (3 files) (File) - Box 81
Personnel files: Administrator, 1986 (2 files) (File) - Box 81
Series. Council, Membership
Council Minutes, 1985-86 (File) - Box 82
Council and Executive minutes 1986 (File) - Box 82
Council membership, 1986 (File) - Box 82
Members of the Association, 1979-86 (File) - Box 82
Council correspondence, 1982-84, 1986-87 (2 folders) (File) - Box 82
Financial records, 1969-72, 1978-84 (File) - Box 83
Payment vouchers, 1987 (File) - Box 84
Financial accounts: 1978-83 (File) - Box 85
Financial statements, 1980-81 (File) - Box 85
Finance committee, 1981-83 (File) - Box 85
Ledger, 1976-83 (File) - Box 85
Working papers, 1986 (including financial acounts) (File) - Box 85
Accounts, 1985-86 (including Articles of Association, December 1978) (File) - Box 85
Series. Fund Raising
Fund Raising Appeal, October 1980 (File) - Box 86
Friends, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, 1974-80 (see also Box 90) (File) - Box 86
NMCA Trust Records, Fund Raising etc, 1961-71 (File) - Box 86
Fund raising, 1982-83 (File) - Box 86
Appeal, Trust Fund (File) - Box 86
Utah Foundation, 1981-82 (File) - Box 86
Pioneer Electronics, 1981 (File) - Box 86
Series. Day Files
Correspondence, April 1985 - November 1986 (File) - Box 87
December 1986 - July 1987 (File) - Box 88
Subsidies, Family Relationship Travel - Camp 88 (File) - Box 88
Campers' Assessments 1988 (A-Z) - 2 folders (File) - Box 88
Series. Commissions, Scholarships, Publishing
Qantas, 1988 (File) - Box 89
Commissions; Koehne, Conyngham, Vine, Katz, Christopher Symons' book on Bishop (2 folders) (File) - Box 89
Scholarship donations, 1984 (File) - Box 89
Publishers/ings: June Epstein - author, Various, grant applications (4 folders) (File) - Box 89
Concert pitch pre-publication orders (File) - Box 89
Copy of June Epstein's Concert pitch (File) - Box 89
Series. Subject files
Adelaide Spring Academy/Langbein String School, 1980-83 (File) - Box 90
Australian National Music Council, 1981 (File) - Box 90
Australian Music Centre, 1979-84 (3 files) (File) - Box 90
Canberra, 1976 (File) - Box 90
Cocktail Concert and public concert programs, 1987 (File) - Box 90
Carclew winter concerts, 1982-83 (File) - Box 90
Carclew schedules, 1982-84 (File) - Box 90
Friends, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, 1981-86 (see also Box 86) (File) - Box 90
ISME Festival Orchestra, 1987-88 (File) - Box 90
Invitations, 1979-86 (File) - Box 91
Library Cataloguing Project, 1984 (File) - Box 91
Library, 1974-75 (File) - Box 91
Library: Contra Bassoon, NMCA Instruments, Symphonic Wind Ensemble (1970; 1981-84) (File) - Box 91
Musica Viva, 1979-84 - Minutes (File) - Box 91
PAYO Submission (Program of Assistance to Youth Organisations) 1982-83 (File) - Box 91
Peter Seymour, 1986 (File) - Box 91
Skin and Cancer Research Foundation Concert (File) - Box 91
Unesco, IMC Organisation (File) - Box 91
Youth Orchestra Survey, 1975 (File) - Box 91
Youth Music Forum, 1984 (File) - Box 91
Youth Music Administrators' and Music Coordinators' Conference, 1983 (File) - Box 91
Series. Photographs
1948, 1959 (File) - Box 92
Expo 1970 (File) - Box 92
Chinese Tour, 1979 (File) - Box 92
1981 and undated (File) - Box 92
Asian Music Camp, 1981 (File) - Box 92
1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1978 (File) - Box 93
1974-84 (some duplicates) (File) - Box 94
Unknown dates (File) - Box 95
Series. Miscellaneous
Press cuttings, 1954-56; articles, newsletters (File) - Box 96-97
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 (File) - Box 98
CAPPA, 193-87 (4 folders) (File) - Box 99
Miscellaneous (1 folder): photocopied scores, list of works in the repertoire of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, poster, certificates (File) - Box 99
Programs (File) - Box 100-101
Card indexes of attendees at camps: 1955-64 (x 2) arranged by musical instrument; 1974-84, A - E (File) - Box 102
Card indexes, 1974-84:F - M (incomplete); N - Z (incomplete) (File) - Box 103
Card indexes: 1969-74 A - Z (AYO) [missing according to Ms Gilby; perhaps borrowed by AYO] (File) - Box 104
AYO photographs (File) - Folio-Box (?)
Class MS Acc03_041. Consignment Added 2003 - Box [4 cartons]
Comprises brochures, programs, tour outlines, reports, Board papers, newsletters, a business plan, constitution, posters and CDs of photographs including photographic highlights of tours.
Class MS Acc05_058. Consignment Added 2005 - Box [4 folio boxes]
Consists of a scrapbook collated and owned by Ruth Alexander, one of the founders of the National Music Camps/AYO. It has been heavily used as a major source of historical information by the AYO.
Class MS Acc06_022. Consignment Added 2006 - Box [7 boxes + 1 carton]
Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, financial records, photographs, Music Library loans registers, issues of Newsbeat, concert programs, tour schedules, handbooks, posters, brochures and press clippings, together with CD-ROMs containing digital photographs and other documents. The records concern the AYO in general, Australian Youth Orchestra seasons, National Music Camps, Young Australian Concert Artists, Young Symphonists, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/AYO orchestral development and other AYO programs and events.
8 data CDs from Box 8 (File)
Strategic Business Plan 2004-2005-2006, Dec-03 (Item NLA.MS-DM001312) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Unbranded, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
2003 Archives, 2003 (Item NLA.MS-DM001313) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Imation 650MB, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
Disc 1 (Orange). National Music Camp 2003. Details on case
2003 Archives, 2003 (Item NLA.MS-DM001314) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Imation 650 MB, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
Disc 2 (Purple). National Music Camp 2003. AYO Season 1 2003. Details on case.
AYO Amsterdam 2004, 2004 (Item NLA.MS-DM001315) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Imation CD-R, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
AYO in Kassel 2004, 2004 (Item NLA.MS-DM001316) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Imation CD-R, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
AYO in La Roque 2004, 2004 (Item NLA.MS-DM001317) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Imation CD-R, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
AYO in Le Puy 2004, 2004 (Item NLA.MS-DM001318) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Imation CD-R, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
AYO (BBC Proms) London 2004, 2004 (Item NLA.MS-DM001319) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Imation CD-R, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
Class MS Acc08_097. Consignment Added 2008 - Box [3 boxes + 1 folio box]
Comprises correspondence, including many letters to Ruth Alexander, photographs (mostly black and white), minutes, reports, financial records, ephemera such as application forms, concert programs, copies of journals containing articles on National Music Camp.
Class MS Acc12.051. Consignment Added 2012 - Box 1
0.18 metres,
2007 and 2008 records of the Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO), including business plan 2007, strategic plans 2007-2009 and 2008-2010, National Board meetings background papers, an AYO February event handbook and a National Music Camp production schedule.
Class MS Acc12_156. Consignment Added 2012 - Box [2 archives boxes]
Comprises the 2009 Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) records including: AYO Board meetings background papers; AYO program booklets and fliers; AYO business plan; AYO strategic plan for 2009-2011; National Music Camp programs, schedules, handbooks, publicity material and issues of 'The daily bull'; and ephemera relating to Style Workshop, Young Australian Concert Artists, AYO seasons, fellowship and career development programs, Young Symphonists, the International Tour Fund and special events.
Class MS Acc13_039. Consignment Added 2013 - Box [4 boxes + 1 map folio]
Comprises the 2011 and 2012 Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) records including: AYO Board meetings background papers; AYO program booklets and fliers; AYO business and strategic plans; National Music Camp programs, schedules, handbooks and publicity material; issues of 'Newsbeat'; and ephemera relating to Style Workshop, Chamber Players, Young Symphonists, AYO seasons, fellowship and career development programs, the Ernest V. Llewellyn Memorial Fund, Regional Residencies and special events.
Class MS Acc13.091. Consignment received 2013 - Box 1-2
0.36 metres,
2006 Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) records, including: AYO Board meetings background papers; 2007 AYO program booklets; AYO business (2006) and strategic (2006-2008 and 2007-2009) plans; an AYO t-shirt; National Music Camp programs, schedules, handbooks and publicity material; issues of 'Newsbeat'; and ephemera relating to Body Torque: Face the Music, Young Australian Concert Artists, Young Symphonists, AYO seasons, fellowship, scholarship and career development programs, the National Music Camp Trust Fund, New Music Now, Camerata Australia and special events.
The Sound of the Australian Youth Orchestra Gulf Air 2004, 2004 (Item NLA.MS-DM009498) - Digital-Carriers-Box 161
1 item, Australian Government, Published Data/Multimedia resources on CD/DVD
[Program enclosed in case3