MS 8019
Papers of Rex Hobcroft (1925- )



Summary

Creator: Rex Hobcroft

Title: Papers

Date range: 1934-96

Extent: 10.98m (79 boxes)

Reference number: MS 8019


Administrative Information

Access: Restricted

Provenance

The papers were purchased by the Library from Hobcroft in two instalments, one in 1990 and the other in 1997.


Scope and Content note

The papers of Rex Hobcroft comprise a large collection of files relating to his early life and various stages of his career. Hobcroft had grouped the files into subject areas and this arrangement has been retained by the Library. Each folder description in this guide commences with Hobcroft's file title, followed by a brief description of the contents. A list of the principal subjects is included at the beginning of this guide.

The bulk of the files date from 1961 and contain correspondence, notes and a large collection of printed material in the form of programs, brochures and flyers. There is also a collection of reports on music related issues, music school handbooks and brochures.

A number of the files relate to Hobcroft's time as Director of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (1972-82) and as Artistic Director of the Sydney International Piano Competition (1976-90). They contain correspondence, programs, reports, voting sheets and cuttings. There are also scrapbooks for the 1977, 1981, 1985 and 1988 competitions.

Hobcroft kept separate files for correspondence with colleagues and friends and this arrangement has been preserved by the Library. Correspondents include Don Banks, John Brodie, Don Burrows, Stuart Challender, Miriam Hyde, Wilfrid Lehmann, James Penberthy, William Primrose, Harold Schonberg, Peter Sculthorpe, Larry Sitsky, Storry Walton and Roger Woodward.

A small number of files relate to Hobcroft's childhood and early career. They include school and music reports, records of his service as a pilot (both in the RAAF and with Ansett), letters from fellow students at the Melbourne University in the late 1940s and early 1950s and programs and cuttings about his performances. Also included is Hobcroft's unpublished autobiography entitled 'Australia's Con man' (380pp).

Included in the papers is a large collection of letters and cards from the poet Gwen Harwood to Hobcroft, covering the period 1962-95. There are also a number of manuscripts and typescripts of poems by Harwood, some of them dedicated to Hobcroft.

The papers document the various phases of Hobcroft's career in music and the organisations and projects with which he has been associated. They provide a good insight into the musical infrastructure in Australia from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, musical politics and the staging of piano and other musical competitions.


Biographical Note

1925 Born in Renmark, South Australia on 12 May to Ivy (neé Philpot) and Hurtle Hobcroft.
1931-42 Educated in Renmark
1942-45 RAAF pilot
1945-46 1945-46 Commercial pilot with Ansett Airways, while studying music part-time at the Melbourne University Conservatorium
1946 Accepted into full-time music course at the Melbourne University Conservatorium, as part of a post-war ex-servicemen rehabilitation program
1948 Graduated with first-class honours in Pianoforte from Melbourne University
1949-50 Post-graduate studies in Europe, including at the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris
1950 Married Victoria Olga Eabry in Stockholm (divorced 1960)
1952 Gained a teachers certificate from the Claremont Teachers' College, Perth
1952 Appointed an Australian Music Examinations Board examiner
1952-56 School music specialist with the Music, Speech and Drama Branch of the West Australian Education Department
1957-61 Foundation Head, Piano Department, Queensland Conservatorium of Music
1961 Married Loretta Marbeth Lightfoot (divorced 1976)
1961-70 Foundation Head, Music Department, University of Tasmania
1963 Appointed chief examiner for matriculation and higher certificate music
1963-71 Foundation Director, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
1967 Tasmanian Churchill Fellow: travelled to the United States, Canada, England and Asia
1968 Studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts
1972-82 Director, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
1972-82 President, Federated Music Clubs of Australia
1975 Japan Foundation Fellowship
1976-90 Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Sydney International Piano Competition.
1977 Married Perpetua Clancy, daughter of Francis Clancy and Elizabeth Durack (divorced 1997)
1977 Awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal for service to the community
1982 Retired from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and moved to Perth
1983 Chair, WA State Government Conservatorium Advisory Committee
1990 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to music
1992-98 Patron, Australian International Conservatorium
1998 Auxiliary Director, Suzuki Association

Hobcroft's career has also included concert performances as a soloist and with orchestra, conducting, chamber music and composing. He has been a jury member of numerous international piano competitions, a member of many music and related arts committees and helped to establish Music Centres in Albury/Wodonga, Bathurst, Lismore, Orange, Port Hedland and Wagga.


Subject List

Adelaide 1942-43, 1979 Box 1
  1992-93 Box 47
Ansett Airways 1945-46 Box 1
  1996 Box 47
Australian International Conservatorium of Music 1993-96 Boxes 51-52
Correspondence 1958-89 Boxes 41-44
  1977-96 Boxes 70-72
General Items 1969-79 Boxes 33-35
  1967-96 Boxes 51-53 and 58-59
Gwen Harwood 1962-95 Boxes 78-79
International Competitions 1984-88 Boxes 45-46
  1966-96 Boxes 60 and 70-76
Melbourne 1945-49 Boxes 1-3
  1990-94 Boxes 47-48
Music School Handbooks & Brochures 1966-77 Box 45
Overseas 1949-50 Boxes 3 and 47
  1988 Box 47
Queensland 1957-61 Boxes 8-10
  1989-96 Box 54
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) 1943-45 Box 1
  1983-95 Box 47
Renmark, South Australia 1934-54, 1980 Box 1
  1989-95 Box 47
Reports 1965-81 Boxes 44-45
Sydney 1971-82 Boxes 16-33
  1972-96 Boxes 55-58
Sydney International Piano Competition 1977-89 Boxes 36-40
  1973-95 Boxes 50, 60-69, 73 and 77
Tasmania 1961-71 Boxes 10-16
  1966-96 Box 54
Western Australia 1951-56 Boxes 3-4 and 47
  1982-87 Boxes 4-8
  1951-96 Boxes 47-50 and 53

Detailed List

Early life, 1931-56

BOX 1

Folder 1 Renmark, 1934-1954

Folder 2 Renmark: schools 1931-42 and 1980

Folder 3 Adelaide: 1942-43 South Australian College of Advanced Education (SACAE), 1979

Folder 4 RAAF, 1943-45

Folders 5-6 Ansett Airways, 1945-46

Folder 7 Melbourne Concerts: programs, 1945

Folder 8 Melbourne Concerts: programs: ABC orchestral, 1946

BOX 2

Folder 9 Melbourne Concerts: programs: ABC celebrity, 1946

Folder 10 Melbourne Concerts: programs: ABC orchestral, 1947
Melbourne Concerts: programs: ABC celebrity, 1947

Folder 11 Melbourne Concerts: programs: ABC orchestral, 1948
Melbourne Concerts: programs: ABC celebrity, 1948 and 1949

Folder 12 Melbourne Concerts: Youth Concerts (first 3 programs of ABC Youth Concerts ever given), 1947

Folder 13 Melbourne Concerts: programs: Royal Philharmonic, 1946-1948

Folder 14 Melbourne Concerts: programs: other celebrity concerts, 1946 and 1970

Folder 15 Melbourne Concerts: programs: Italian Opera Company, 1948-1949
Melbourne Concerts: programs: ballets, plays, films, 1946-1948

Folder 16 Melbourne University Conservatorium: general, 1945-1949

BOX 3

Folder 17 Melbourne University Conservatorium: Hobcroft: concerts etc., 1945-1949

Folder 18 Melbourne University Conservatorium: Sir Bernard Heinze

Folder 19 Melbourne University Conservatorium: Max Cooke

Folder 20 Melbourne University Conservatorium: Hobcroft examiner

Folder 21 Overseas: Hobcroft items, 1949-1950

Folder 22 Overseas: Mme Bascourret, 1949-1950

Folder 23 Overseas: programs, 1949-1950

Folder 24 Western Australia: Hobcroft concerts: programs

Folder 25 Western Australia: Hobcroft lectures

BOX 4

Folder 26 Western Australia: two booklets written by Hobcroft for students preparing for the Junior Music A examination (Public Examinations Board, University of WA):
‘A music course for the secondary school’, first year, 1955
‘A music course for the secondary school’, teachers, 1955

Folder 27 Western Australia: Hobcroft students

Folder 28 Western Australia: Western Australia Education Department

Folder 29 Western Australia: Hobcroft: Australian Music Examiners Board Western Australia:
Western Australia Music Teachers Association
Western Australia: Western Australia Guild of Young Artists

Folder 30 Edward Black

Folder 31 Other West Australian musicians
University of Western Australia: Music Department
Western Australia: Australian Music Festival

Western Australia 1982-1987 (folders 32-64)

Folder 32 Earlier Western Australia Conservatorium of Music efforts

Folders 33- 34 Hobcroft report to D. Jecks, 1982

BOX 5

Folder 35 Hobcroft: letters regrading the need for a Western Australia Conservatorium of Music, 1982-1983

Folder 36 Hobcroft: report recommending a Conservatorium of Music in Western Australia to Minister of Arts

Folder 37 Hobcroft: Conservatorium Report: letters and reactions

Folders 38- 39 Western Australia Conservatorium of Music: Committee letters and background information

Folder 40 Western Australia Conservatorium of Music: Committee minutes and other items

Folder 41 Western Australia Conservatorium of Music: Richard Gill, Dean

Folder 42 Western Australia Conservatorium of Music

BOX 6

Folders 43- 45 Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts

Folder 46 Hobcroft: Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts

Folder 47 G. Gibbs and Western Australia academy staff

Folder 48 Western Australia Academy: music courses

Folder 49 Western Australia Academy: Hobcroft consultancy, 1987

Folder 50 Western Australia Academy: Kalgoorlie visit

BOX 7

Folders 51- 52 Western Australia Academy: Port Hedland Music Centre, 1982-1984

Folder 53 Hobcroft: piano students

Folder 54 Hobcroft: World Piano Centre proposal

Folders 55- 56 Hobcroft: eisteddfods and master classes in Perth

Folder 57 Hobcroft: China visit, 1986

Folder 58 Hobcroft: Western Australia Music Teachers' Association

BOX 8

Folder 59 Western Australia musicians and other artists

Folder 60 Laurie Capper's keyboard system

Folder 61 Western Australia organizations: Opera Company; Youth Orchestra; Department of Arts; Zenith; Music Branch (Education Department)

Folder 62 Perth programs

Folder 63 Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) and Noel Sheridan

Folder 64 Australian Music Examiners Board

Queensland 1957-1961 (folders 65-81)

Folder 65 Hobcroft: appointment and resignation

Folder 66 Queensland Conservatorium: history

Folder 67 W. Lovelock: resignation, 1959

BOX 9

Folder 68 W. Lovelock: letters to Hobcroft

Folder 69 Queensland Conservatorium: staff

Folder 70 Queensland Conservatorium and University Music Handbooks

Folder 71 Hobcroft: piano students

Folder 72 Hobcroft: concerts: correspondence, programs, publicity and newspaper cuttings, 1957-74

Folder 73 Hobcroft: ABC broadcasts and talks to schools, 1959-60

Folder 74 Hobcroft: adjudicator: Queensland eisteddfods

Folder 75 Seminars

Folder 76 Hobcroft and James Christiansen: overseas tour enquiries

BOX 10

Folder 77 Other Queensland musicians

Folder 78 Musical Association of Queensland and other organisations

Folder 79 ABC celebrity concert programs, 1946

Folder 80 ABC concert programs

Folder 81 Handbook of Music for Teachers: Queensland Education Department

Tasmania 1961-1971 (folders 82-132)

BOX 10

Folder 82 University of Tasmania and Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: Hobcroft: appointment and resignation

Folder 83 Hobcroft: concerts: correspondence, programs and newspaper cuttings, 1962-70

Folder 84 Hobcroft: publicity re concerts, 1962-71

BOX 11

Folder 85 Hobcroft: talks and articles

Folder 86 Hobcroft: correspondence relating to a grant awarded to Hobcroft by the Experimental Films and Television Fund, which resulted in the film From time to time, 1971-82

Folder 87 Hobcroft: ABC contracts for recitals, concertos and conducting

Folder 88 Hobcroft: Churchill Fellowship tour, 1967

Folder 89 Hobcroft: Opera conference, Sofia, 1967

Folder 90 Hobcroft: referees' reports for other Churchill applicants

Folder 91 Hobcroft: study leave, 1968

Folder 92 Hobcroft: Japan, 1968-1969

BOX 12

Folder 93 Hobcroft: three visits to James Cook University, Townsville, 1970

Folder 94 University of Tasmania: Music I and II and Music Education IIA

Folder 95 University of Tasmania: Faculty of Education

Folder 96 University of Tasmania: Faculty of Arts

Folder 97 University of Tasmania: newsletters and items re Professor Orr's case

Folder 98 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, 1963-1971 and 1985

Folder 99 University of Tasmania Orchestra and String Orchestra

Folder 100 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Launceston branch

BOX 13

Folder 101 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: Graeme Buchanan: letters to Hobcroft

Folder 102 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: staff, including university music staff

Folder 103 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: students, including Graduation Ceremonies program

Folders 104-105 University of Tasmania: lunch hour concerts

Folder 106 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music Handbooks

Folder 107 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: music education experiment, 1968-1969

Folder 108 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: Noh Theatre Workshop: W. Flindt, 1969

BOX 14

Folder 109 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: String Summer School

Folder 110 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: Music Society

Folder 111 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music and University Music visitors

Folder 112 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: special concerts and workshops

Folder 113 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: Review Working Party (University of Tasmania), 1982

Folder 114 Tasmanian College of Advanced Education

Folder 115 1st Australian Composers' Seminar, Hobart, 17-21 April, 1963

Folder 116 2nd Australian Composers' Seminar, Hobart, 1965 and Festival of Contemporary Opera and Music

Folder 117 Tasmanian University Choral Society (TUCS): Musica Viva sponsored concert

BOX 15

Folder 118 TUCS/Tasmanian University Orchestra/Tasmanian University: Madrigal Singers: programs and items

Folder 119 TUCS: general items

Folder 120 TUCS: minutes, agendas, Hobcroft's conductor's reports

Folder 121 Tasmanian Opera Company

Folder 122 Tasmanian University: Great Hall Committee

Folder 123 Hobart Orpheus Choir

Folder 124 Tasmanian Girls' Choir

Folder 125 Hobart Choral and Philharmonic Society, The Friends of Music

Folder 126 Festival of Tasmania, 1972

BOX 16

Folder 127 Tasmanian Schools' Board and Matriculation Music Syllabus Committee

Folder 128 Other Tasmanian Music Committees

Folder 129 Other Tasmanian musicians, artists, actors and visiting musicians

Folder 130 Other Tasmanian programs (most of them ABC concerts)

Folder 131 Other Tasmanian letters to and from Hobcroft

Folder 132 Tasmanian Australian Music Examiners Board

Sydney 1971-1982 (folders 133-272)

BOX 16

Folder 133 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Hobcroft: appointment and retirement

Folder 134 Hobcroft: letters re appointment, 1971

Folder 135 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: graduation ceremonies

BOX 17

Folder 136 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: honorary fellowships

Folder 137 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: professional staff lists

Folder 138 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: registrars and administration staff

Folder 139 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: students

Folder 140 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: staff bulletins and newsletters

Folder 141 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: staff association

Folder 142 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Students Association and Contact

Folder 143 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Hobcroft: secretaries' letters

Folder 144 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Opera School

BOX 18

Folder 145 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: School of Musicology

Folder 146 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: School of Composition Studies

Folder 147 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: School of Education Studies

Folder 148 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: School of Practical Studies (Keyboard Department)

Folder 149 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: School of Practical Studies (String Department)

Folder 150 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: School of Practical Studies (Singing Department)

Folder 151 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: School of Practical Studies (Woodwind and Brass and Percussion Departments)

Folder 152 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: School of Practical Studies (Jazz Department)

Folder 153 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Piano Tuning School

BOX 19

Folder 154 First National Convention Australia, Piano Tuners and Technicians Association, 1985

Folder 155 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: symphony and chamber orchestras

Folder 156 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: string quartet and Carl Pini quartet

Folder 157 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: part-time staff letters

Folder 158 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Joseph Post

Folder 159 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: association and foundation

Folder 160 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: visiting and resident artists

Folder 161 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: John Painter

Folder 162 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Francis Cameron

BOX 20

Folder 163 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Ronald Smart

Folder 164 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Warren Thomson

Folder 165 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Clive Pascoe

Folder 166 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: future development ideas

Folder 167 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: building plans

Folder 168 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: high school

Folder 169 Newcastle Conservatorium

Folder 170 Wollongong Conservatorium

Folder 171 Central Western Music Centre

BOX 21

Folder 172 Northern Rivers Music Centre

Folder 173 Riverina Music Centre

Folder 174 Broken Hill

Folder 175 Copy of Con brio, journal of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, March 1973

Folders 176-177 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: concert programs

Folder 178 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: publicity

Folder 179 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: reviews of concerts and operas, 1973-85

Folder 180 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: concert diaries since 1982

BOX 22

Folder 181 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: 60th birthday celebrations

Folder 182 Eugene Goossens Memorial Concert, 10 October 1973

Folder 183 Eugene Goossens: general items

Folder 184 Hobcroft: letters to and from Board of Governors, NSW Conservatorium of Music

Folder 185 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Board of Governors: general items

Folder 186 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Board of Governors: annual reports

Folder 187 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Board of Governors: financial statements

Folder 188 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Board of Governors: minutes of meeting, 15 August 1983

Folder 189 Copies of the NSW Conservatorium of Music Act and the NSW Conservatorium of Music Bill 1965 and 1977

BOX 23

Folder 190 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Board of Studies

Folder 191 NSW Conservatorium: report re future management, 1962

Folder 192 Hobcroft and other Conservatorium Reports on developing music centres

Folder 193 General information for Hobcroft: report on The Future Development of Music Centres

Folder 194 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: B. Music submission, 1981

Folder 195 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: course submissions and Advanced Education Board references

Folder 196 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Winther study re discussion papers

Folder 197 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Executive Committee

BOX 24

Folder 198 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: students and staff of 2MBS-FM programs

Folder 199 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: letters from musicians seeking positions

Folder 200 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: NSW Ministry of Education

Folder 201 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: operas at Sydney Opera House and Mary Durack's description

Folder 202 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Ministry and Education Department; Higher Education Board and Public Service Board

Folder 203 Pan Pacific music camps

Folder 204 Music Rostrum: Hobcroft

Folder 205 Music Rostrum: Hobcroft

Folder 206 Clarinet Society of NSW in association with NSW Conservatorium

BOX 25

Folder 207 Hobcroft and Stefan Haag: meetings, 1972

Folder 208 Sydney de Vries Memorial Prize for singing and Margaret Gillespie

Folder 209 Copy of Music education - the role of TAFE, a report published by the NSW Department of Technical and Further Education, 1985

Folder 210 Hobcroft: Music Education Report: setting up of the Task Force

Folder 211 Hobcroft: notes re Minister for Education, 1980

Folders 212-213 Hobcroft: two volumes of report enquiry into music education in NSW Primary schools

Folder 214 Hobcroft: minutes etc re meetings of Task Force

BOX 26

Folder 215 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: music students Overseas Study Foundation; Alfred White Bequest and Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust

Folder 216 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: in-service courses for music teachers

Folder 217 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Hobcroft: notes of meetings with staff, 1972 and 1982

Folder 218 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Hobcroft: miscellaneous letters

Folder 219 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Hobcroft: miscellaneous talks

Folder 220 Hobcroft: articles and references, including Raymond Hanson funeral oration

Folder 221 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Hobcroft leave report, 1975

Folders 222-223 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Hobcroft leave items, 1975

BOX 27

Folder 224 Hobcroft: Consulates and Embassies

Folder 225 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: press conferences

Folder 226 Hobcroft: Member, Patron of Music organisations

Folder 226A Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Music Research Centre: M. Clynes

Folders 227-228 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Music Research Centre: seven research papers

Folder 229 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Music Research Centre: other papers

Folder 230 Hobcroft: visit to Kuala Lumpur, 1981

Folder 231 Hobcroft: scheme to assist talented Australian pianists

BOX 28

Folder 232 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: anonymous, sad and strange letters

Folder 233 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: general items

Folder 234 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Penrith Music Centre project

Folder 235 Copy of Arts in Schools, a report by the inter-departmental committee appointed to enquire into the arts education of school children in NSW, chaired by Neil Morrison, 1974

Folder 236 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Harmony Workbook, School of Composition Studies

Folder 237 Board of Studies: National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)

Folder 238 University of Sydney: Music Department and other tertiary schools' items

Folder 239 Federated Music Clubs of Australia

Folder 240 City of Sydney Cultural Council (eisteddfod)

BOX 29

Folder 241 Musical Association of NSW, renamed the Music Teachers Association of NSW in 1970s

Folders 242-243 Ministry of Cultural Activities, NSW

Folder 244 Bound typescript copy of ‘Instrumental Music in three Metropolitan Regions in NSW’ a report prepared by Deanna Hoermann et al of the Education Department of NSW, nd

Folder 245 Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust: programs and newsletter, 1971-73

Folder 246 Training Committee: Australian Council for the Arts, 1973

Folder 247 ABC Music Advisory Committee

Folder 248 Fellowship of Australian Composers

BOX 30

Publications

BOX 31

Folder 249 Musica Viva

Folder 250 Sydney Opera House

Folder 251-252 Other Sydney Programs

Folder 253 Musicians' letters to and from Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Folder 254 National Music Camp Association; Sydney Youth Orchestra; North Shore Symphony Orchestra and Australian Youth Orchestra

Folder 255 Premiers, Ministers and other government people

Folder 256 University of NSW: timbron instrument: Roger Covell

Folder 257 Australian Museum and British Council's The Australia Bulletin

BOX 32

Folder 258 Hobcroft: other organisations: Robert Stolz School and Schubert Society; Sydney Legacy; Marianne Mathy School and Joseph Kretschmann Club

Folder 259 Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) Advisory Committee and ABC/SSO program

Folder 260 Australian Opera (AO) Board, Executive Committee and Program Committee

Folder 261 AO: letters and general Items

Folder 262 AO: studio

Folder 263 AO: auditions: Metropolitan Opera Auditions; Opera Foundation and Armstrong Martin School

Folders 264-265 AO: reports

Folder 266 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: course brochures

BOX 33

Folder 267 50th anniversary of the Australian Performing Rights Association

Folder 268 Federation of Australian Music Teachers Associations

Folder 269 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Willie Flindt: Japanese Noh Theatre resident artist

Folder 270 Australian Music Examiners Board: NSW Advisory Board

Folder 271 Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial School, 1981

Folder 272 Hobcroft: meeting with Sydney Conservatorium of Music staff, 1972

General Items (folders 273-292)

Folders 273-274 Three Australian Music Examiners Board manuals

Folder 275 Australian Music Examiners Board: annual conferences: minutes and related items

BOX 34

Folder 276 Australian Music Examiners Board: annual conferences: minutes and related items

Folder 277 ABC/Australian Music Examiners Board: broadcasts

Folder 278 Australian Music Examiners Board: reports and letters when Hobcroft was Chairman (1971-73) and Executive Member (1969-73)

Folder 279 Australian Music Examiners Board: general items: Federal

Folder 280 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) seminar, Melbourne University Conservatorium, 1956

Folders 281-282 Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) and UNESCO seminars, Brisbane, 1969

Folder 283 ASME general items, including Hobcroft article "Music courses in USSR"

Folder 284 International Society for Music Education (ISME) and ASME, Perth: general items, 1974

BOX 35

Folder 285 Report, UNESCO Seminar, School of Music, Sydney, 1965

Folder 286 International Music Council, Melbourne and Sydney, 1979

Folder 287 Electronic Music Seminar, Melbourne, 1971

Folder 288 International Society for Contemporary Music

Folder 289 Adjudicator at competitions in Victoria and Northern Territory

Folder 290 Third Composers' Seminar, Canberra, 24-28 September 1977

Folder 291 Opening of Canberra School of Music, September 1976

Folder 292 Australian Musicological Society

Sydney International Piano Competition (SIPC), 1977-89 (folders 293-316)

Folder 293 SIPC Beginnings : Hobcroft and Claire Dan and 1977 Program

BOX 36

Folder 294 SIPC beginnings : Hobcroft and Claire Dan, 1977 Program

Folder 295 Executive minutes, 1978-81

Folder 296 Applicants, 1977, 1981, 1985 and 1988

Folder 297 2MBS-FM broadcasts, 1985

Folder 298 Du Ning Wu: 1st Prize winner, 1985

Folder 299 SIPC: ABC, 1985

Folder 300 Rose Music

Folder 301 International Music Festival proposal for Brisbane Expo, 1988

BOX 37

Folder 302 Budgets, 1985

Folders 303-304 Executive minutes, 1981-85

Folder 305 Rene Gailly International Productions, Brussels

Folder 306 SIPC: Music Board, Australia Council

Folder 307 Recital: Roger Woodward, 1985

Folder 308 Executive members and Sir Ian Turbott, Chairman, 1977-85

Folder 309 Pert charts: papers relating to the administration of the SIPC, 1981-85

Folder 310 Bulletins, 1985

BOX 38

Folder 311 Australian Resident Pianists' Auditions, 1985

Folder 312 Invitation to the premier of the film Pictures at a competition, a film about the 1981 SIPC

Folder 313 SIPC: ABC, 1981

Folder 314 Penny Beams (Brockman), administrator, 1985 and 1988

Folder 315 Letters from competitors and repertoire lists of 1985 competitors

Folder 316 Auditions overseas and Australian auditions, 1985

BOX 39

Overseas Competitions (folders 317-333)

Folder 317 Chopin Competition visit, Warsaw, 1975

Folder 318 Tchaikowsky Competition visit, Moscow, 1978

Folder 319 Listz-Bartok Competition, Budapest, 1981

Folder 320 Chopin Competition Jury, Warsaw, 1980

Folder 321 Pozzoli Competition Jury, Italy, 1981

Folder 322 Pozzoli Competition Jury, Italy, 1983

Folder 323 Pozzoli Competition Jury, Italy, 1985

Folder 324 Pozzoli Competition Jury, Italy, 1987

BOX 40

Folders 325-326 Gina Bachauer Competition Jury, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1986

Folder 327 Tokyo Competition Jury, 1986

Folder 328 Munich Competition Jury, 1987

Folder 329 Gina Bachauer Competition, international auditions, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1987

Folder 330 Van Cliburn Competition, Fort Worth, Texas, 1985

Folder 331 Other competitions, including Rex Hobcroft article on Queen Elizabeth Competition, Brussels, 1987

Folder 332 New Zealand National Concerto Competition Judge, 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1980

Folder 333 Cincinnati World Piano Competition, 1989

BOX 41

Correspondence (folders 334-366)

Folder 334 Fellow students at Melbourne University Conservatorium, 1958-88

Folder 335 Correspondence, Don Banks, 1972-82

Folder 336 Correspondence, James Penberthy, 1960-89

Folder 337 Correspondence, Peter Sculthorpe, 1948-82

Folder 338 Correspondence, Larry Sitsky, 1968-80

Folder 339 Correspondence, Gerald Glynn, 1974-88

Folder 340 Correspondence, Miriam Hyde, 1975-87

Folder 341 Correspondence, Roger Woodward, 1975-82

Folder 342 Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1959-82

BOX 42

Folder 343 Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1959-89

Folder 344 Correspondence, Betsy Brown, 1974-89

Folder 345 Correspondence, Virginia Braden, 1977-84

Folder 346 Correspondence, Will and Barbara Blankenship, 1978-89

Folder 347 Correspondence, Willie Flindt, 1969-85

Folder 348 Correspondence, Fred Blanks and Roger Covell, 1976-84

Folder 349 Correspondence, Don Burrows, 1980-87

Folder 350 Correspondence, Kim Williams, Stuart Challender, Vincent Plush, 1973-87

Folder 351 Correspondence, Storry Walton, 1958-79

BOX 43

Folder 352 Correspondence, James Murdoch, 1980-83

Correspondence, Antigone Kefala, 1975

Folder 353 Correspondence, William Primrose, 1976-79

Folder 354 Correspondence, Harold Schonberg, 1984-89

Folder 355 Correspondence, Raymond Hanson, 1976-77

Folder 356 Correspondence, Maurice Abravanel, 1986-87

Folder 357 Correspondence, John Brodie, 1968-89

Folders 358-359 Correspondence, Japan, 1969-88

Folder 360 Correspondence, Doris & Marion Bennett, 1986-87

Correspondence, Effie Conaughton, 1972, 1985 and 1987

BOX 44

Folder 361 Correspondence, Mary Fairfax, 1976, 1978

Folder 362 Correspondence, Kees Brusse, 1985

Folder 363 Correspondence, John Giordano, 1983-86

Folder 364 Correspondence, Lone Winther, 1979-80

Folder 365 Correspondence, Ron and Betty Bell, 1962-72

Folder 366 Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1976, 1987

Reports (No. 1-25)

No 1 Making Musicians, 1965

No 2 Training Musicians, 1978

No 3 Comprehensive Musicianship, 1965

No 4 Education and the arts: national report, 1977

No 5 Education and the Arts, Western Australia report, 1977

No 6 Education and the Arts, New South Wales report, 1977

No 7 Fontes Artis Musicae, 1979

No 8 Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, second report, 1970-72

No 9 Third Asian Composers' League Conference: final report, held in Manila, Philippines, 1975

No 10 Report of the Australian UNESCO seminar ‘Criticism in the Arts’, 1970

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No 11 Music and Mental Health: an introduction to music therapy in Australia, Ruth Bright n.d.

No 12 Primary Music Symposium Report, 1979

No 13 Kodaly Education Institute of Australia, Vol 5, No 1, 1980

No 14 Report and evaluation - a developmental programme of music education for Primary School (Kodaly-based) by Deanna Hoermann and Gwynneth Herbert, 1979

No 15 Arts on course, Volume 1, Education and the Arts Conference, Sydney: conference papers, April 1980

No 16 Arts on Course, Volume 2, Education and the Arts Conference, Sydney : reports from the state convenors of the Education and the Arts Project, April 1980

No 17 What Price Culture, David Throsby and Glenn Withers, 1984

No 18 ‘Education and the Arts in the Northern Territory’, 1980

No 19 Music Librarianship and Documentation, Adelaide, 1970

No 20 ‘Enquiry into Opera/Music Theatre in Australia’, submission by The Australian Opera, 1979

No 21 ‘Interim Report and certain conclusions drawn from a survey of independent art groups in cities and towns of NSW with a population of not less than 1,100’, 1966

No 22 ‘The Economics of the Arts’, C.D. Throsby, in Current Affairs Bulletin, September 1977

No 23 Program for the Australian Broadcasting Commission compositions for the 1972 International Rostrum of Composers, Sydney

No 24 ‘Submission to the Committee of Review of the Australian Broadcasting Commission’, 1980

No 25 Australian Education Directory, 1981

Music School Handbooks and Brochures (No. 26-52)

No 26 University of Michigan, School of Music, 1966-67

No 27 University of Cambridge, general regulations, 1970

No 28 The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, 1976-77

No 29 Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve, 1963

No 30 University of Cincinnati: Preparatory Department, 1971-72

No 31 University of Southern California, 1961, 1963

No 32 De Paul University, Chicago, 1966-67

No 33 San Diego State College, School of Fine Arts

No 34-36 Notes from Eastman, newsletter of the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, USA, 1968 and 1969

No 37 East Bay Music Center, Richmond, California

No 38 Northwestern University School of Music, Illinois, July 9-29, 1967

No 39 San Diego State College, 1967

No 40 Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio, 1966-67

No 41 New Zealand Registered Music Teachers Year Book, 1976

No 42 Athens Conservatory History, 1871-1971

No 43 Frankfurt Hochschule fur Musik

No 44 University of Toronto, Faculty of Music

No 45 Beverley Hills High School, Los Angles

No 46 Indiana University Bulletin, 1962

No 47 Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra

No 48 Indiana University: Piano Graduates, 1966

Box 46

No 49 Indiana University: pamphlets and publications, 1964-66

No 50 Warsaw Piano Syllabus, 1972

No 51 Warsaw articles, 1972

No 52 Warsaw articles, 1973

International Competition Brochures, 1981-89 (No. 53-63)

No 53 Geza Anda Competition, Zurich, 1988

No 54 Monza, Italy, 1986

No 55 Sixth Van Cliburn, Fort Worth, Texas, 1981

No 56 Seventh Van Cliburn, Fort Worth, Texas, 1985

No 57 Eighth Van Cliburn, Fort Worth, Texas, 1989

No 58 Seventh Van Cliburn, Fort Worth, Texas: program, 1985

No 59 The Harvey, Leeds, 1987

No 60 The Sixth Gina Bachauer, Salt Lake City, Utah: program, 1982

No 61 Seventh Gina Bachauer, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1984

No 62 Toronto Bach Program, 1985

No 63 Newcastle Conservatorium

Index cards

A set of index cards, prepared by Hobcroft, which accompanied the original consignment boxes of files. There is a card for each file, giving a summary of the file contents. These cards were grouped in consignment box number order by Hobcroft, who numbered the files in each box separately. When this collection was arranged by the Library, although the order of the files was maintained, consecutive numbers were allocated.

The consignment box number and the corresponding Library allocated folder numbers are listed below.

Box 1 Folders 1-31

Box 2 Folders 32-64

Box 3 Folders 65-81

Box 4 Folders 82-114

Box 5 Folders 115-132

Box 6 Folders 133-156

Box 7 Folders 157-181

Box 8 Folders 182-203

Box 9 Folders 204-226

Box 10 Folders 226a-248

Box 11 Folders 249-272

Box 12 Folders 273-292

Box 13 Folders 293-316

Box 14 * Folders 455-485

Box 15 * Folders 486-514

Box 16 Folders 317-333

Box 17 (no cards) Folders 334-366

Box 18 Reports, handbooks and brochures No. 1-63

* Boxes 14 and 15 were transferred to the Library at a later date, which is why the file numbering is out of sequence.

Addition December 1996

Many of the papers in this addition follow on from files that were included in the first instalment of papers. Where this is the case, a ‘see also’ reference has been included.

Hobcroft’s order and arrangement of the papers has been retained and the papers are listed by file title. The Library has allocated consecutive numbers to the files, which follow on from the first instalment.

BOX 47

Folder 367 Renmark schooling: correspondence, 1989-95 (see also folder 2)

Folder 368 The Elder Conservatorium of Music: 1992-93 prospectus, published by the University of Adelaide, Faculty of Performing Arts (see also folder 3)

Folder 369 RAAF: correspondence from former colleagues and brochures about a reunion, 1983-95 (see also folder 4)

Folder 370 Ansett Airways: correspondence regarding the airlines 60th anniversary, 1996 (see also folders 5-6)

Folder 371 The University of Melbourne gazette, Spring 1990 (see also folder 16)

Folder 372 Max Cooke: correspondence, 1989-96 (see also folder 19)

Folder 373 Overseas: letter from Barry Carman, 1988 (see also folder 21)

BOX 48

Western Australia, 1951-96 (folders 374-392)

Folder 374 Western Australia concerts: schedule for the Aima Reega ballet company’s 50th Anniversary of Federation tour of WA towns, 1951 (see also folder 24)

Folder 375 Students in Perth: letter from Hazel Day, 1991 (see also folder 27)

Folder 376 Western Australian Teachers’ Colleges: correspondence, cuttings and brochures, 1989-92 (see also folder 28)

Folder 377 Western Australian Guild of Young Artists, 50th anniversary reunion, 1992 (see also folder 29)

Folder 378 Other Western Australian musicians: cuttings, 1991 (see also folder 31)

Folder 379 Memories of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, 1946-49 (written by Hobcroft for a history of the Conservatorium being compiled by Peter Tregear), 1994

Folder 380 Friends in Western Australia: letter from Pam Stynes (nd)

BOX 49

Folder 381 Richard Gill, Dean, Western Australian Conservatorium of Music: flyer for farewell concert, 1990 (see also folder 41)

Folder 382 Western Australian Conservatorium of Music: correspondence and flyers for the Conservatorium Chamber Music Concert, 1991-92 (see also folder 42)

Folder 383 Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts: correspondence and performance brochures, 1992-92 (see also folders 43-45)

Folder 384 Port Hedland Music Centre: papers relating to proposed closure, 1989-96 (see also folders 51-52)

Folder 385 Perth: Hobcroft’s piano students: correspondence, examination sheets and cuttings, 1990-96 (see also folder 53)

Folder 386 Western Australia, eisteddfods and master classes: correspondence and programs, 1989-93 (see also folders 55-56)

BOX 50

Folder 387 Copies of The music bulletin, published by the Western Australian Music Teachers Association, 1989-95 (see also folder 58)

Folder 388 Western Australian musicians: correspondence, 1989-95 (see also folder 59)

Folder 389 Australian Music Examination Board in Western Australia: correspondence and copies of newsletters and flyers, 1993-96 (see also folder 64)

Folder 390 Western Australian music clubs: invitations to performances, 1991-96 (see also folder 61)

Folder 391 Edward Black: correspondence, 1970-90 (see also folder 30)

Folder 391A Sydney Conservatorium of Music of Music: minutes of meeting,

5 June 1972

Folder 392 Western Australian Opera Co.: correspondence and programs,

1985-92

BOX 51

Folders 393-4 Suzuki Talent Education Association: correspondence and newsletters, 1992-96

Folder 395 International Piano Archives, Maryland, USA: correspondence and brochures, 1987-91

Folder 396 Catalogues for sales of paintings by Norman Lindsay and Sam Byrne, 1989-91

Folder 397 ABC radio series Who was that pianist?: correspondence and scripts, 1982-88

Folder 398 Australian International Conservatorium of Music (AICM): Advisory Board meetings, 1994-96

Folder 399 AICM: Academic Board meetings, 1993-95

BOX 52

Folder 400 AICM: concert programs and prospectus, 1994-96

Folder 401 AICM: notes and general correspondence, 1993-96

Folder 402 Letters to Hobcroft re his Order of Australia award, 1990

Folder 403 Shepparton Piano Award: correspondence, notes and brochures, 1994-96

Folder 404 Centralian Eisteddfod, Alice Springs: program, 1993

Folder 405 Mark Allen, bogus piano maker: papers relating to a court case, initiated by Allen, in the County Court of Victoria, Melbourne, 1988-90

BOX 53

Folder 406 Correspondence and papers relating to Hobcroft’s patronage of the Department of Music, Prince Alfred College, Perth including correspondence with the Director of Music, Pam Freeman, 1992-96

Folder 407 World Piano Centre: proposal, 1984-91 (see also folder 54)

Folder 408 World Piano Centre, Vienna: correspondence, 1989-95 (see also folder 55)

Folder 409 World Piano Centre, Holland: correspondence with Dr G. Alink, 1989-95 (see also folder 459)

Folder 410 World Piano Centre: correspondence, 1986

Folder 411 University of Western Australia, Department of Music: prospectus, 1988

Folder 412 Osaka College of Music, Japan: printed material, 1986

BOX 54

Queensland

Folder 413 Queensland Conservatorium of Music:
News clippings re staff, 1988-91 (see also folder 69)
Letters from Hobcroft's students, 1989-96 (see also folder 71)

Tasmania, 1966-96 (folders 414-419)

Folder 414 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music:
Churchill Fellowship Tour, 1967 (see also folder 88)
Letter from Cynthia Mitchell, 1991 (see also folder 98)
Staff, 1991-96 (see also folder 102)
Students, 1992-96 (see also folder 103)

Folder 415 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music:
Lunch hour concerts, 1966 (see also folders 104-5)
Copy of an address by Professor W. Mellers, York University,
Music Department, 1972 (see also folder 111)
Rialannol String Quartet, 1975
1996 handbook (see also folder 106)

Folder 416 Other Tasmanian programs, 1966 (see also folder 130)
Letter from Loyal Burley, 1991 (see also folder 131)

Folder 417 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: 25th anniversary, 1990

Folder 418 Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music: new home, 1990-93

Folder 419 University of Tasmania: PhD application by Hobcroft, 1991-92

BOX 55

Sydney, 1972-96 (folder/items 420-444)

Folder 420 Sydney Conservatorium of Music:
Hobcroft's appointment and retirement, 1972-82 (see also folder 133)
Students, 1985-93 (see also folder 139)
Students Association, 1991 (see also folder 142)
Letters from secretaries, 1995 (see also folder 143)

Folder 421 Sydney Conservatorium of Music:
School of Education Studies (see also folder 147)
School of Practical Studies, Keyboard Department: correspondence (see also folder 148)
School of Practical Studies, Woodwind, Brass and Percussion Department: correspondence, 1992-95 (see also folder 151)
Flyers for performances by the Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, 1993 (see also folder 125)

Folder 422 Sydney Conservatorium Association: newsletters, meeting agendas and flyers, 1989-96 (see also folder 159)

Folder 423 Letters from Ronald Smart, 1989-94 (see also folder 163)
Letters from Warren Thomson, 1990 (see also folder 164)
Flyer for a concert by John Painter, 1993 (see also folder 161)

Folder 424 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: building plans, 1978-90 (see also folder 167)

Folder 425 Sydney Conservatorium of Music High School: correspondence, cutting and concert program, 1973-93 (see also folder 168)

Folder 426 Newcastle Conservatorium and University of Newcastle Faculty of Music: correspondence, 1990-96 (see also folder 169)

Folder 427 Wollongong Conservatorium and James Powell: correspondence, 1989-91 (see also folder 170)

BOX 56

Folder 428 Sydney Conservatorium of Music:
Concert reviews, 1990 (see also folder 179)
Concert diaries, 1989-95 (see also folder 180)

Folder 429 Sydney Conservatorium Board of Governors:
Letters to and from members, 1991-93 (see also folder 184)
General, 1972-79 (see also folder 185)

Folder 430 Pan Pacific Music Camps: agenda, minutes of program meeting and program flyers, 1989-91 (see also folder 203)

Item 431 Copies of the journal Clarinet scene and the newsletter Clarinews, published by the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of New South Wales, 1988-96 (see also folder 206)

Folder 432 Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust: correspondence, 1977 (see also folder 215)

Folder 433 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: in-service courses for teachers, 1990-95 (see also folder 216)

Folder 434 Dr Manfred Clynes: correspondence, papers written by Clynes and an article on Clynes written by Hobcroft, 1982-95 (see also folder 226A)

Folder 435 Sydney Conservatorium of Music: general items, 1990-95 (see also folder 233)

BOX 57

Folder 436 University of Sydney, Music Department: a copy of Music now, Vol 2, No. 2, Dec 1974 (see also folder 238)

Folder 437 Federated Music Clubs of Australia: correspondence, 1991-92 (see also folder 239)

Item 438 Music Teachers’ Association of NSW: copies of quarterly magazine (see also folder 241)

Folder 439 Fellowship of Australian Composers: journal and AGM agendas, 1988-96 (see also folder 248)

BOX 58

Folder 440 Other musical organisations: notes, 1981 (see also folder 263)
Australian Opera: letters, 1991 (see also folder 261)
Australian Opera: auditions, 1972 (see also folder 263)

Folder 441 NSW Advanced Education Conference: invitation, 1989
Heather Gell and the Dalcroze Society of South Australia: newsletter and flyers, 1996
Nancy Salas Trust: correspondence and flyers, 1990-93

Folder 442 Review of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music: correspondence and report of the Review Committee, 1993-94

Folder 443 Professor Sharman Pretty, Principal, Sydney Conservatorium of Music: cuttings and a copy of Hobcroft’s letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald regarding comments made by Pretty, 1996

Folder 444 Applications by Hobcroft for overseas trips from the NSW Conservatorium of Music, 1973-80

General items, 1967-96 (folders/items 445-449)

Folder 445 Newcastle University, Conservatorium of Music: correspondence and cuttings relating to a piano manufactured by Stuart & Sons, 1990-96

BOX 59

Item 446 Copies of the journal Australian journal of music education, the journal of the Australian Society for Music Education, 1967-82 (see also folder 283)

Folder 447 Australian National Academy of Music: brochures, 1996
International Rostrum of Composers: programs, 1972-73

Folder 448 Australian and New Zealand Cultural Arts: information booklet, 1990
US Music Teachers’ National Association: program for the National Convention, New York, 1987

Item 449 Australian Music Examinations Board: manual of syllabuses, 1994-95

BOX 60

International Competitions, 1966-94 (folders/item 450-454)

Folder 450 Sydney International Piano Competition:
Beginnings, 1973-77 (see also folder 293-4)
Executive, 1993 (see also folder 295)
Du Ningwu (1st prize winner, 1985), 1990 (see also folder 298)
Letters, 1977

Item 451 Chopin International Piano Competition, Warsaw, Poland: programs and invitations, 1975-80 (see also folder 317)

Folder 452 Tchaikowsky International Competition, Moscow: programs, 1966, 1994 (see also folder 318) Tokyo International Music Competition: brochure, 1989 (see also folder 327)

Folder 453 Chopin Competition, Warsaw, Poland: program, 1980 (see also folder 320)

Folder 454 Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah: auditions, 1986-94 (see also folder 329)
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth Texas, USA: correspondence and brochure, 1992 (see also folder 330)
Other international piano competitions: correspondence and brochures, 1985-91 (see also folder 331)

Sydney International Piano Competition (SIPC), 1976-95 (folders 455-514)

Folder 455 Sydney International Piano Competition (SIPC): sponsorship, 1985-88

Folder 456 SPIC: Australian compositions, 1987-88

BOX 61

Folder 457 SIPC: Australian Bicentennial Authority brochure, 1986

Folder 458 SIPC: New Zealand auditions and tour, 1987-87

Folder 459 SIPC: Gustav Alink, Holland: correspondence, 1984-87

Folder 460 SIPC: chamber music: employment of musicians, 1987

Folder 461 SIPC: bulletins, 1988

Folder 462 SIPC: draft brochure for 1988 competition

Folder 463 SIPC: Board and Executive meetings: agendas and minutes, 1988

BOX 62

Folder 464 SIPC: overseas auditions: Vienna and Frankfurt, 1988

Folder 465 SIPC: overseas auditions: Paris and London, 1988

Folder 466 SIPC: overseas auditions: New York and Los Angeles, 1988

Folder 467 SIPC: pianos: Bosendorfer and Kawai: correspondence and brochures, 1988

Folder 468 SIPC: pianos: Yamaha and Steinway: correspondence and brochures, 1988

Folder 469 SIPC: Qantas: sponsorship, 1985-87

Folder 470 SIPC: concert schedules, 1985-88

BOX 63

Folder 471 SIPC: USSR and Bulgaria competitions, 1988

Folder 472 SIPC: proposal for ABC/TV ‘Hypothetical’ program, 1988

Folder 473 SIPC: Sydney hotels: accommodation for jurors and critics, 1988

Folder 474 SIPC: Sydney auditions and applicants unable to audition, 1988

Folder 475 SIPC: applications for grants: Australia Council and Office of the Minister for the Arts, 1988

Folder 476 SIPC: Friends of SIPC: programs, flyers and invitations, 1988

Folder 477 SIPC: Federation of International Music Competitions: correspondence and rule book, 1979-86

BOX 64

Folder 478 SIPC: Virginia Braden Arts Management: correspondence and list of artists 1982-86

Folder 479 SIPC: Australian Chamber Orchestra: correspondence, programs and flyers, 1988-90

Folder 480 SIPC: B. Phillis: proposal to make a documentary film and TV series of the 3rd SIPC, 1984-88

Folder 481 SIPC: Cladan Cultural Exchange Institute, Australia, 1983-93

Folder 482 SIPC: budgets, 1985-88

Folder 483 SIPC:
Voting procedures for the Jury, 1981-88
Hobcroft's voting sheets for the 4th competition, 1988

Folder 484 SIPC: transcript of an interview of Hobcroft by Carolyn Benn for the Friends of SIPC, 1988

BOX 65

Folder 485 SIPC: itinerary for audition of international applicants, 1985

Folder 486 SIPC: auditions: candidates selected and candidates close to selection, 1988

Folder 487 SIPC: auditions: decisions and announcements, 1988

Folder 488 SIPC: auditions: hall bookings, 1987-88

Folder 489 SIPC: copies of The sounding board, the newsletter of the Friends of SIPC, 1986-95

Folder 490 SIPC: Artistic Director: correspondence, reports, notes, schedules and brochures, 1981-85

BOX 66

Folder 491 SIPC: Artistic Director: correspondence, reports, notes, schedules and brochures, 1986-88

Folder 492 SIPC: jury: correspondence, 1976-92

Folder 493 SIPC: personal letters to Hobcroft from jurors, 1977-81

Folder 494 SIPC: jury and observers: correspondence, 1988

Folder 495 SIPC: International Advisory Board: correspondence, 1985

Folder 496 SIPC: International Advisory Board: correspondence, 1987-88

BOX 67

Folder 497 SIPC:

Reports from Penny Brockman, 1985-88

Letters from Penny Brockman, 1987-89

Folder 498 SIPC: Australian Broadcasting Commission: correspondence, 1987-88

Folder 499 SIPC: Li Ming Qiang, Shanghai Conservatorium of Music: correspondence, 1984-90

Folder 500 SIPC: Selection Committee decisions, 1981-85

Folder 501 SIPC: Chia Chou, 1st prize winner 1981: correspondence and travel schedule for Australian tour, 1981-83

Folder 502 SIPC: sample voting slips, 1981

Folder 503 SIPC: programs, 1981-88

BOX 68

Folder 504 SIPC: advertising, newspapers and program, 1985-88

Folder 505 SIPC: subsequent careers of SIPC pianists: correspondence and publicity material, 1983-89

Folder 506 SIPC: lists of broadcast tapes held and general office stocktake, 1977-88

Folder 507 SIPC: reviews and publicity: press cuttings, 1985

Folder 508 SIPC: 1st prize winner’s concerts: correspondence and tour schedules, 1988

Folder 509 SIPC: 1st prize winner Alexander Korsantiya: reviews of concerts, 1988

Folder 510 SIPC: International Jazz Competition: notes, 1984-85

BOX 69

Item 511 SIPC: voting sheets, 1985 competition

Folder 512 SIPC: voting sheets, 1988 competition

Folder 513 SIPC: voting sheets, 1985 Australian auditions

Folder 514 SIPC: Australian compositions commissioned, 1981, 1985, 1988

BOX 70

International Competitions, 1986-90 (folders 515-518)

Folder 515 Cincinnati World Piano Competition: cuttings and promotional material, 1989 (see also folder 333)

Folder 516 Ana Sieiro de Trenchi International Piano Competition, New York: correspondence, 1986-88

Folder 517 Dino Ciani Competition, Milan: correspondence, 1990

Folder 518 World Federation of International Music Competitions: handbooks, 1987-90

Correspondence, 1977-96 (folders 519-531)

Folder 519 Correspondence: John Heming, 1989-96 (see also folder 334)

Folder 520 Correspondence: Simon Banks re Don Banks, 1990-95 (see also folder 336)

Folder 521 Correspondence: James Penberthy, 1989-96 (see also folder 336)

Folder 522 Correspondence:
Peter Sculthorpe, 1990 (see also folder 337)
Larry Sitsky, 1996 (see also folder 338)
Gerald Glynn, 1989-96 (see also folder 339)
Miriam Hyde, 1989-93 (see also folder 340)

BOX 71

Folder 523 Correspondence:
Roger Woodward, 1977 (see also folder 341)
Ronald Smith, nd (see also folder 343)
Betsy Brown, 1988-92 (see also folder 344)
Virginia Braden, 1991 (see also folder 345)
Will and Barbara Blankenship, 1989-93 (see also folder 346)
Willie Flindt, 1993-94 (see also folder 347)

Folder 524 Correspondence:
Fred Blanks, 1991-96 (see also folder 348)
Stuart Challender, 1991 (see also folder 350)
Storry Walton, Peter Boyce, Peter Platt, 1989-95 (see also folder 351)
James Murcoch, 1994-95 (see also folder 352)
Harold Schonberg, 1990-95 (see also folder 354)
John Brodie, 1993 (see also folder 357)

Folder 525 Correspondence:
Masako Saito, 1996 (see also folder 358)
Taiichiro Oguri, 1995 (see also folder 359)
Janice Chapman, Effie Conaughton, 1990-92 (see also folder 360)
Penny Brockman, 1990-96

Folder 526 Correspondence:
Peter Eicher, Jean-Paul Sevilla, 1990-94
Joan Chissell, John McCabe, Edward Gorton, 1991-95
Bradford Gowen, John Giordano, 1984-95

Folder 527 Correspondence:
Brian Chatterton, Clemens Leske, 1989-94
Adam Wibrowski, Gitti Pirner, Piotr Palecny, Constantin Ganev, 1989-90
Arie Vardi, Rosalyn Tureck, 1990
Miscellaneous letters, including Jonathan Wearn, 1988-94

Folder 528 Correspondence:
Li Ming Qiang, 1990-94
Josephine Symons, 1993
Carolyn Benn, 1989-94

BOX 72

Folder 529 Correspondence:
Leslie Robson, 1989-95
Marcello Abbado, 1981-93

Folder 530 Correspondence: Cyrus Meher-Homji, 1992-93

Folder 531 Correspondence: Elizabeth Durack and Durack family, 1977-95

International Competitions, 1986-96 (folders 532-535)

Folder 532 Geza Anda Piano Competiton, Zurich: brochures 1991-96 (see also box 46, No. 53)
Leeds International Piano Competition: brochures, 1990 (see also box 46, No. 59)
First Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Japan: brochures, 1991
Sixth Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Israel: brochures, 1989

Folder 533 Manhattan School of Music, New York: brochures, 1989

Folder 534 New Zealand International Violin Competition: brochures, 1991
Rome International Piano Competition: brochures, 1991-96
International Piano Competition, Vaucresson, France: brochures, 1992

Folder 535 University of Maryland, USA, William Kapell Competition: brochures, 1986-88

BOX 73

Sydney International Piano Competition (SPIC), 1989-96 (folders 536-538)

Folder 536 SIPC: brochures, 1992-96

Folder 537 SIPC: reviews, 1992-96

Folder 538 SIPC: Artistic Director: correspondence, 1989-96

International Competitions, 1987-96 (folders 539-554)

Folder 539 Fifth UNISA [University of South Africa] International Piano Competition, Pretoria: correspondence and brochures, 1989-90

Folder 540 Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Kalamazoo, USA: correspondence, brochures and cuttings, 1987-93

BOX 74

Folder 541 Gilmore Artist Awards, Kalamazoo, USA: correspondence, 1991-96

Folder 542 First London World Piano Competition: correspondence and brochures, 1989-91

Folder 543 Twentieth Senigallia International Piano Competition, Italy: correspondence and brochures, 1991

Folder 544 Dublin International Piano Competition: correspondence and brochures, 1991

Folders 545-46 Pozzoli International Piano Competition, Milan: programs and brochures, 1991

BOX 75

Folders 547-48 Santander International Piano Competition, Spain: correspondence, programs and brochures, 1987-90

Folders 549-50 Santander International Piano Competition, Spain: correspondence, programs and brochures, 1990-96

Folder 551 Sixth International UNISA [University of South Africa] International Piano Competition, Pretoria: correspondence, programs and brochures, 1990-96

BOX 76

Folder 552 Marsala International Piano Competition, Sicily: correspondence and brochures, 1992

Folder 553 China International Piano Competition, Beijing: correspondence, program and brochures, 1993-95

Folder 554 Piano Academy at Imola, Italy: correspondence, 1988

Item 555 Bound copy of Hobcroft's unpublished autobiography entitled ‘Australia’s Con man’, 380pp

BOX 77

Sydney International Piano Competition (SIPC), 1977-88 (items 556-559)

Four scrapbooks containing brochures, cuttings, programs, publicity material and photographs relating to the SIPC.

Item 556 SIPC: scrapbook, 1988

Item 557 SIPC: scrapbook, 1985

Item 558 SIPC: scrapbook, 1981

Item 559 SIPC: scrapbook, 1977

BOX 78

Gwen Harwood, 1962-95 (folders 560-566)

Hobcroft met the poet and librettist Gwen Harwood in 1961, when they both lived in Hobart. They remained close friends until Harwood’s death in 1995.

Folder 560 Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by Gwen Harwood, several dedicated to Hobcroft, together with letters from Harwood, 1962-70. Also included is a photocopy of ‘The Golem’, an opera in 3 acts with libretto by Harwood and music by Larry Sitsky, 1977.

Folder 561 Letters from Gwen Harwood regarding poetry written by Hobcroft, 1962-63

Folder 562 Letters from Gwen Harwood, 1962-78

Folder 563 Letters from Gwen Harwood, 1980-95

Folder 564 Cards (Sappho cards) from Gwen Harwood, 1962-84 (bulk 1962-64)

Folder 565 Cards from Gwen Harwood, 1970-95 (bulk 1982-95)

Folder 566 Miscellaneous items relating to Gwen Harwood: cuttings, correspondence with Harwood’s husband Bill and her son John and a copy of an article appearing in Southerly (nd) entitled ‘Lamplit Presences’ in which Harwood talks about her writing.