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1x Folder with miscellaneous items of sheet music collected on the tour, undated. Collected from Anne Pyers and John Hamilton.

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1x Folder with general administration records from the Australian University Festival Choir Melbourne (including correspondence 1967-1969, committee minutes 1967-1968, audition details, and a choir member list), 1967-1969. Collected from Anne Pyers and Bruce Macrae.

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1x CD labelled "Australian Universities Festival Choir of Melbourne 1968/69" transcribed from a tape recording of a concert made when the choir, under Val Pyers, was touring the USA.
Collected from Gordon Hawley and John Hamilton.

This inventory item comprises one folder containing:

1x Invitation (in envelope) to Val Pyers for a reception in honour of Robert Shaw and Festival Choruses Thursday 27 March 1968. Collected from Anne Pyers;
1x Entrée card for Reception and Presentation of the Choir, Great Hall, Victorian Arts Centre, Wednesday 13 November 1968. Collected from Anne Pyers;
2x Choir Entrée cards for Reception and Presentation of the Choir, Great Hall, Victorian Arts Centre, Wednesday 13 November 1968. Collected from Anne Pyers;
2x Invitations for Reception and Presentation of the Choir, Great Hall, Victorian Arts Centre, Wednesday 13 November 1968. Collected from Anne Pyers;
1x Personal archive of Val Pyers (with the following items pasted on one sheet: Invitation to Reception at National Gallery and a photograph and review by John Sinclair of that concert; Promotional advertisement for Moomba festival Concert, Saturday 8 March 1969; And a letter from James Bjorge, Director of the International Choral Festival, congratulating Val on a taped performance in January 1969). Collected from Anne Pyers;
12x Telegrams of good wishes for the USA tour (including telegrams from Henry Bolte, David Derham (Melb Uni Vice Chancellor), and H. C. (Nugget) Coombs, c1968-1969. Collected from Anne Pyers;
1x Certificate of Appreciation for AUFC and Val Pyers (signatories include John D. Rockefeller and Robert Shaw), undated. Collected from Anne Pyers;
1x Handwritten sheet for spoken introduction for George Dreyfus' work (written by Val Pyers in his own handwriting and copied verbatim by Bruce Macrae in his own equally distinctive hand). Reverse side has annotation in Val Pyer's handwriting mentioning concert item alteration announcement for one performance and Bruce Macrae's consequent new concert item list, undated. Collected from Anne Pyers;
1x Note from Douglas Whitlock to Bruce Macrae offering a review from the Washington(?) newspaper "The Star" (this review does not seem to be in the collection), undated. Collected from Anne Pyers.

This inventory item comprises one folder containing:

1x Program Reception and Presentation of the Choir, Great Hall, Victorian Arts Centre, Wednesday 13 November 1968 (also includes named Choral items). Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Poster, Russell Sage College Troy, New York, Sunday 16 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Program, Russell Sage College Troy, New York, Sunday 16 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Ticket, Scarsdale High School Concert, Thursday 13 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Program, Scarsdale High School Concert, Thursday 13 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Program, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, Tuesday 18 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Flyer, International University Choral Festival, Lincoln Centre, New York, 23-30 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Communication from AUFC detailing program at Philharmonic Hall (Lincoln Centre), 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
2x Programs from the Lincoln Centre, Complete Second International University Choral Festival, 13-31 March 1969 (also includes a schedule for all university, college and school tours by all visiting choirs). Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
2x Programs, Washington Cathedral, Saturday 22 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Ticket, Lincoln Centre, 28 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Sheet of lyrics of all pieces for AUFC to sing on tour, 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Program, Festival Concert 1 (Opening Night), Sunday 23 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Program, Festival Concert 2, Tuesday 25 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Program, AUFC at State University College Cortland, New York, Friday 14 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Itinerary for College and University Tour by AUFC 13-21 March 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Program, Final Concert of AUFC, Storey Hall, Monday 26 May 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Program, ABC 1969 Concert Series (includes AUFC performing choral music by Brahms, Debussy, Mozart and Ravel. Conductor Otakar Trhlik), Melbourne Town Hall, 23-24 June 1969. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers. Collected from Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers;
1x Program, (undated and concert unknown but certainly from 1969). Collected from Gordon Hawley.

This inventory item comprises one folder containing:

1x Copy of Journal of the Australian-American Association (Victoria) containing a detailed review and photographs of the USA tour, a history of the choir formation and descriptions of specially-written choral works by Helen Gifford "The Glass Castle" and George Dreyfus "Under the Gum Trees at Sunrise", 1969. Collected from Anne Pyers;
1x Collection of memoranda and communications from the American Festival Organising Committee, 1969. Collected from Anne Pyers.

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1x Folder with promotional press articles (and some concert reviews) of the choir, 1969. Collected from Anne Pyers and John Hamilton.

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1x Folder with Australian University Festival Choir Melbourne records (including member lists, photographs and a signed restaurant placemat from the last night of the USA tour, 5 April 1969). Collected from Joyce Edwards, Bruce Macrae and Anne Pyers.

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1x Folder with postcards and souvenir booklet of the Lincoln Center (New York, USA), participating choir information sheets and newsletter, a map of the University of Illinois, and an order of service from The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (New York, USA), Itinerary College and University Tour 13-21 March 1969. Collected from Anne Pyers.

This inventory item comprises one folder containing the following sets of records:

13x Concert reviews from USA Press of the Australian Universities Festival Choir performances, 1969. Collected from Anne Pyers;
4x Concert reviews from USA Press of the Australian Universities Festival Choir performances (reverse sides have two congratulatory letters from Prime Minister John Gorton and from Ella Grainger, widow of Percy Grainger), 1969. Collected from Anne Pyers;
5x Concert reviews of the Australian Universities Festival Choir's Melbourne performances from Australian Press by John Sinclair, Linda Phillips, Lana Wells and one unnamed reviewer (also includes one USA Press review by John Kyes), 1969. Collected from Anne Pyers;
11x Promotional articles from USA Press of the Australian Universities Festival Choir upcoming performances, 1969. Collected from Anne Pyers.

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1x Folder with iinvitations, menus and acceptance lists for Ten and Forty year reunion dinners, c1979-2009. Collected from Bruce Macrae;
2x Souvenir posters for the forty year reunion, c2009. Collected from Bruce Macrae.