On the cover this month
Don McMurdo (1930-2001)
[Portrait of Jennifer McGregor as Fe-an-nich-ton in Ba-ta-clan, July 1984]
colour negative; 35 mm
In: Don McMurdo Performing Arts Collection
Pictures Collection,
nla.pic-an23351536
The
Australian Government has long encouraged the donation of significant
cultural items to institutions such as the National Library through the
Cultural Gifts Program. The program, which celebrated its 25th
anniversary in 2003, provides tax incentives for individuals who donate
significant items to the nation’s heritage collections (see article on
page 19). Items donated to the Library under the Cultural Gifts Program
include the Don McMurdo Collection, which consists of many thousands of
photographs from over 200 opera, ballet and theatre performances at the
Sydney Opera House between 1976 and 1990. Don McMurdo was employed by
the Sydney Opera House Trust as official photographer during the 1970s
and 1980s. This image shows Australian soprano Jennifer McGregor in one
of her starring roles. Awarded the Armstrong-Martin Scholarship for
study overseas, McGregor became principal soprano at the Heidelberg
Opera, Germany, from 1988-1990.
January 2004 Volume XIV Number 4
FAREWELL TO WARREN HORTON AM, 1938-2003
Staff of the National Library of Australia, the library community and friends were saddened to hear of the death, after a long illness, of the Library’s former Director-General Warren Horton on 25 November 2003
AusSTAGE:RECORDING AUSTRALIAN PERFORMING ARTS EVENTS
Richard Stone describes how the online index to Australia’s performing arts history is helping to preserve a snapshot of society that would otherwise be lost forever
THE STORY OF THE HAPPINESS BOX
Meredith Hinchliffe reveals how Sir David Griffin came to write a children’s fable in the unlikely surroundings of Changi prison camp
BUSH POLICEMAN WITH THE SOUL OF AN ARTIST
Judy Cannon looks at the life of Constable John William Stokes through his 1930s diaries, and relates his adventures policing remote Australian settlements
HUNTING FOR THE NEW LEFT IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY
Jennifer Clark finds clues in the Library’s collections to a shift in Australian political consciousness in the 1960s and 1970s
CULTURAL GIFTS
Penelope Layland uncovers the largely hidden community of benefactors whose generosity helps to enrich the cultural life of institutions such as the National Library
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
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