Guide to the Papers of Roger Woodward
MS 10379
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: March 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Woodward, Roger
- Title
- Papers of Roger Woodward
- Date Range
- 1960-2017
- Collection Number
- MS 10379
- Extent
- 33.5 metres (40 archive boxes + 2 ms boxes + 10 medium phase boxes + 17 oversized phase boxes + 1 small folio box + 3 map folios + 3 rolls + 1 piece)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises Roger Woodward's personal and professional papers including: correspondence from family, friends and colleagues; diaries; writings; musical scores; audiovisual recordings; applications for academic positions; awards and honours; administrative and faculty papers relating to his position at the School of Music, San Francisco State University; family and professional photographs; posters; programs, press material and paintings.
Conditions Governing Access
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7579478).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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], Papers of Roger Woodward, National Library of Australia, MS 10379, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.
Finding Aid Source
Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.
Audio/Audio-Visual Carriers
Please note: Boxes 42-44 and 73-74 no longer exist as they contained audio/audio-visual carriers which have been rehoused for appropriate storage.
Item Descriptions
Class 1. Consignment received 2017
This consignment includes Roger Woodward's personal and professional papers including: correspondence from family, friends and colleagues; diaries; writings; musical scores; audiovisual recordings; applications for academic positions; awards and honours; administrative and faculty papers relating to his position at the School of Music, San Francisco State University; family and professional photographs; posters; programs, press material and paintings.
Series. Personal papers
Conditions Governing Access
Boxes 1-3 are not available for research until 2086.
Series. Professional papers
Publications (File 53) - Box 8
Matters of the Mind (containing paper by RW on Jean Barraque); Literature and Aesthetics (containing paper by RW on Music and Change)
Medals and honours; Gong given to RW by Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu (File) - Box 9
Australian OBE; French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; Polish Commemorative medal (25 years of the August Solidarity Agreement); British Most Excellent OBE; Australian Centenary of Federation Medal; Polish Gloria Artis Zloty Medal; Polish Orderu Zaslugi; International Rotary Award
Other honours and awards, 2004 (File 58) - Box 10
French Award Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Series. Business records
Photographs Artistic Director-Graeme Murphy, Kraanerg Performance Rehearsals, 1988 (File 159) - Box 21
Photographs - Musicians & Other Professionals - 6 x CD-ROMs of digital photographs (File 165)
Ben This is Your Life (Item NLA.MS-DM000741) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Files for RW, 2003 (Item NLA.MS-DM000742) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, magmedia, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)General
Attempts to copy the data from this carreir were unsuccessful June 2023.
[Untitled] (Item NLA.MS-DM000743) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Verbatim, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Roger Woodward Photography (Item NLA.MS-DM000744) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, TEAC, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Suzanne Opitz
Chronological Photographs Majorca, Chopin's Home Valldemossa, Holiday, 1976-1979 (File 174) - Box 24
Sydney Dance Company; Xenakis' Kraanerg, Sydney Opera House, 1988 (File 184) - Box 25
4 x coloured 35mm slides
Chronological Photographs Geneva Extasis Concert-David Flemming & Rolf Gehlhaar, 1989 (File 186) - Box 25
Chronological Photographs China Concert and Shanghai visit with painters participating in Sydney Spring, 1990 (File 189) - Box 25
Chronological Photographs Sydney Spring New South Wales, 1990 (File 190) - Box 25
3 x coloured 35mm slides
Chronological Photographs Concerts; Estonia, Finland, Iceland & Latvia, 1993-1994 (File 194) - Box 26
Chronological Photographs University of Sydney, Honorary Doctorate (1996) and Doctorate (1999) (File 197) - Box 26
Chronological Photographs Cuba (2003) and Miami, Florida (2014) with Jorge Luis Herrara Daute (Fellow student and friend from Polish university period) (File 202) - Box 26
Photographs, posters, artwork Sydney Opera House Chopin Recital; Roger Woodward 50th Anniversary Concert poster, 1992 (File 207) - Box 27
Series. Video recordings
Video recordings of performances: 1 x Beta; 12 x VHS (File)
Roger Woodward (Piano)Tan Lihua (Conductor), 1990 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005923) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, JVC, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcCentral Philharmonic Beijing Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1
Kagel Match (Item NLA.MS-SAV005924) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcStretton on Saturday Episode 9, 1996 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005925) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Matsui, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcRoger Woodward interview
Expo 85 Japan, 1985 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005927) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, 3M, Pro formats - Betacam, Betacam SP etcRoger Woodward Expo
Live Music Roger, 1982 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005928) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, BASF, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcRoger Woodward for Sunday, 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005929) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Sony, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc9 Network
Concert Hour Percy Grainger T/C Display, 1993 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005930) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Complete Post, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc7 mins
Percy Grainger B & W footage (Item NLA.MS-SAV005931) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Complete Post, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc15 mins
Mrs Woodward interview with Helen Dalley (Item NLA.MS-SAV005933) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcTCN 9 Sunday, Government House Presentation
Donatoni in London (Item NLA.MS-SAV005934) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, JVC, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcSimon Romanos conducts 'In Cauda III'
The University of Sydney Graduation Ceremony, 1996 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005935) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Sony, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc9:30am 1/3/1996
Video recordings of performances: 2 x Beta; 1 x DVD; 13 x VHS (File)
Roger Woodward profile (Sunday TCN9) (Item NLA.MS-DM000748) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, DVD, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)"Home on the Range" (Australian Story ABC-TV)
Roger Woodward 3:30 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005938) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Betacam, Pro formats - Betacam, Betacam SP etcwith compliments Gary Mc Donald Producer GMA
[Untitled] (Item NLA.MS-SAV005939) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Betacam, Pro formats - Betacam, Betacam SP etcAustralia's Entertainment Spectacular (Item NLA.MS-SAV005940) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, JVC, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc#23
Roger Woodward plays Beethoven, 1983 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005941) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, published VHS Polygram Music video, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcLive from the Sydney Opera House
Roger Woodward & ABC Music Row Cover Stories, 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005942) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcfor Sunday 9 Network
Shimmer - Featuring Leigh Warren and dancers and string quartet (Item NLA.MS-SAV005943) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcABC TV Arts
Facing the Music, 2001 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005944) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcVideo Ezy
A Sprint to remember (Item NLA.MS-SAV005945) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc(temporary title)
Queensland Performing Arts Complex, 1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005946) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Zenac Productions, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcVersion 2/Judy Beresford
Spring Convocation, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005947) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Maxell, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcUniversity of Alberta Edmonton
[Untitled], 1982 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005948) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, BASF, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcPencilled on the side of the case 'Chopin 1st concert live Opera House'
Woodward in Macedonia, 1995 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005949) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Sony, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcBy Nikolai Kodjabashia
Roger Woodward, 1984 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005950) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-033
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc60 mins
Video recordings of performances: 2 x U-matic cassettes, 3 x Beta; 1 x DVD; 6 x VHS (File)
The Wedding (Item NLA.MS-DM000749) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, DVD, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Sound by Sound, 1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005953) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Fuji, Pro formats - Betacam, Betacam SP etcRoger Woodward (Steinway)
Something Rich and Strange, 1991 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005954) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Maxell, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcIannis Xenakis
Roger and Trish, 1989 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005955) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Palsonic, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc16/04/1989
The Woodward file and trailer (Item NLA.MS-SAV005956) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Fuji, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcAustralian Story : Home on the Range, 1999 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005957) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Silver Shadow, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcConcert Hall Opening Brisbane, 1985 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005958) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, TDK, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcSydney Dance Company, 1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005959) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, TDK, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcKraanerg Music Iannis Xenakis - Directed Roger Woodward
Roger Woodward Festival d'Automne de Paris, 1989 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005960) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Ampex, Pro formats - Betacam, Betacam SP etcAdelaide Chamber Orchestra (Item NLA.MS-SAV005961) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-034
1 item, Fuji, Pro formats - U-maticPart 1
Series. Books
Series. Musical scores
Xenakis scores, articles; 2 x special format carriers (File) - Box 49
Facsimiles of Beethoven and Mozart scores (File) - Box 50
Beethoven Sonatas 23 in f minor Op 57; 31 in A flat minor Op110; 32 in C minor Op 111: Mozart die Zauberflote KV 620
Notes and correspondence between Larry Sitsky and RW from 1990-1997; Scores of Larry Sitsky (Australian) (File) - Box 54
notes relate to composition of 'Twenty Two Paths of the Tarot'
Morton Feldman (Australian) - also includes 2 x double CDs of musical performances (File) - Box 57
Ross Edwards (Australian) (File) - Box 58
Original piano concerto written for and dedicated to RW; Choros - a work of Edwards' but never performed
Wood mounted 'sheets' of the Great Treatise (File) - Box 61
accompanying instructions for Performing the 64 Changes of the Sacred Book of Change
Compositions and arrangements; sketches for Advance Australia Fair; cadenza for Mozart Concerto; Lionel Ritchie's 'Endless Love' (File) - Box 62
Jean Barraque score 'Sonate pour Piano'; sketches for projected works at the time of his death in 1973; 1 x vinyl record; 1 x CD (File)
Various Composers: Howard Bashan; Nicholas Briansky; Frederich Chopin; Richards Dubra; P Vaskas; Ermis Theodorakis; Zografeki Mokedonia (File) - Box 67
Some music annotated and or inscribed as that of RW
Covered works of Bach belonging to RW (File) - Box 68
The Organ works of JS Bach Books 1-7; Books 9 and 10
Series. Recordings
Vinyl records x 22 (File)
Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues, 1975 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005965) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, Red Seal, Vinyl discsConcert for Darwin live at the Sydney Opera House (Item NLA.MS-SAV005966) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, RCA M7, Vinyl discsRW plays Polonaise in F sharp minor
Takemitsu: Corona/for away/piano distance/undisturbed rest, 1973 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005967) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, Decca, Vinyl discsThe London Music Digest from the Round House (Item NLA.MS-SAV005968) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, EMI, Vinyl discsChopin Etudes, Nocturne, Polonaise Fantasie (Item NLA.MS-SAV005969) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, EMI, Vinyl discsScriabin, Shostakovich, Prokofiev (Item NLA.MS-SAV005971) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, EMI, Vinyl discsFelix Werder Sonata No 3 for Piano (Item NLA.MS-SAV005972) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, ABC, Vinyl discsContemporary Australian Piano Music (Item NLA.MS-SAV005973) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, Red Seal, Vinyl discsBeethoven Sonatas (Item NLA.MS-SAV005974) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, Red Seal, Vinyl discsOpus 111 in C minor; Opus 57 in F Minor Appassionata
Beethoven: Three Piano Sonatas (Item NLA.MS-SAV005975) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, Red Seal, Vinyl discsChopin Recital, 1973 (Item NLA.MS-SAV005976) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, His Master's Voice, Vinyl discsChopin (Item NLA.MS-SAV005977) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, EMI, Vinyl discsPolonaise, Allegro, Barcarolle, Mazurkas
Beethoven/Liszt (Item NLA.MS-SAV007386) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012
1 item, Red Seal, Vinyl discsSymphony No 3 in E Flat Eroica
Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues (Item NLA.MS-SAV007388) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012
1 item, Red Seal, Vinyl discsOp.87
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV007389) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012
1 item, Red Seal, Vinyl discsShostakovich Piano Quintet/Piano Trio (Item NLA.MS-SAV007390) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012
1 item, Red Seal, Vinyl discsThe Edinburgh Quartet
20th International Festival of Contemporary Music (Item NLA.MS-SAV007391) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012
1 item, Red Seal, Vinyl discsWarsaw Autumn
Conyngham Southern Cross Ice Carving (Item NLA.MS-SAV007392) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012
1 item, EMI, Vinyl discsSydney Symphony Orchestra
CDs x 24 (File)
Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues (Item NLA.MS-DM000755) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Op. 87 Nos 1-14
Takemitsu Piano Works (Item NLA.MS-DM000756) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, ABC Classics, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Complete Piano Works 1952-1990
Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues (Item NLA.MS-DM000757) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Op. 87 Nos 15-24
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Item NLA.MS-DM000758) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Works for piano 1908-1938
Johann Sebastian Bach Buch II BWV 870-893 (Item NLA.MS-DM000759) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Johann Sebastian Bach chromatic fantasia and fugue BWV 903; partita no. 2 BWV 826; partita no. 6 BWV 830 (Item NLA.MS-DM000760) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Roger Woodward in concert, 2007 (Item NLA.MS-DM001242) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Debussy, Chopin, Bach
Dimitri Shostakovich Op. 87 (Item NLA.MS-DM001243) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Iannis Xenakis Alpha Centauri Ensemble, 1989 (Item NLA.MS-DM001244) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Etcetera, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Dallapiccola - Henze - Perezzani - Mahler, 1997 (Item NLA.MS-DM001245) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Deutsche Grammophon, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Jugendorchester/Claudio Abbado
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra - Larry Sitsky, David Porcelijn (Item NLA.MS-DM001246) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, ABC Classics, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Twenty Two Paths of the Tarot
Roger Woodward plays Prokofiev (Item NLA.MS-DM001247) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, ABC Classics, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Debussy Piano Works (Item NLA.MS-DM001248) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, ABC Classics, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Prokofiev 3rd Piano Concerto "live", 2000 (Item NLA.MS-DM001249) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Sydney Opera House
Xenakis Mists - BBC (1) (Item NLA.MS-DM001250) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, COMPUSA, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Claude Debussy Preludes Books 1 & 2, 2007 (Item NLA.MS-DM001251) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Fryderyk Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 F-Minor Op. 21; Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Quartet No. 3 C-Major WoO 36 (Item NLA.MS-DM001252) - Digital-Carriers-Box 27
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)with Alexander String Quartet
Fryderyk Chopin the complete nocturnes (Item NLA.MS-DM001253) - Digital-Carriers-Box 28
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Hans Otte, Stundenbuch, Book of Hours (Item NLA.MS-DM001254) - Digital-Carriers-Box 28
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Peter Michael Hamel, vom klang des lebens of the sound of life (Item NLA.MS-DM001255) - Digital-Carriers-Box 28
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Music of the Russian Avant-Garde 1905-1926 (Item NLA.MS-DM001256) - Digital-Carriers-Box 28
1 item, celestial harmonies, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Roslavets, Mosolov, Pasternak, Stanchinsky, Julian Skryabin, Obukhov, Alexandr Skryabin
Morton Feldman Piano and Orchestra, Flute and orchestra, Oboe and orchestra, cello and orchestra (Item NLA.MS-DM001257) - Digital-Carriers-Box 28
1 item, cpo, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Class 2. Consignment received 2018
This consignment includes three notebooks (possibly teaching notes); five copies of a concert program circa 2015 and one published book in German titled 'Johann Sebastian Bach, Hochzeitsquodlibet 1707'
Class 3. Consignment received 2019
Series. Business Records
Kraanerg reviews, papers, 1988-1991 (File 308) - Box 79
Sydney Theatre Company production, Sydney Opera House, November 1988
Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music and Visual Arts, 1990-1998 (File 309) - Box 80
Newspaper clippings, media releases, programs
Series. Audio and Audio-Visual Material
Video cassette, 1997 (File) - Box 79
SEVENTH SPRING: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC with Roger Woodward