Richard G. Thew - chorusmaster's annotated vocal score of Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky, published...
Richard G. Thew - chorusmaster's annotated vocal score of Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky, published 1950, performed in Sydney Town Hall, 1959
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1950 - 1959
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MLMSS 7397
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1 folder - 0.01 Meters
Music - (printed score, with manuscript annotations)
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Fonds
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1950, 1959; Oedipus Rex : opera-oratorio in two acts after Sophocles / music by Igor Stravinsky ; words by Jean Cocteau, translated into Latin by J. Danielou. Reduction for voice and piano by the composer. New revision 1948. New York : Boosey & Hawkes, c1950. 1 vocal score (96 pp.) signed on title page and following 2 pages by performers at the S...
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Richard G. Thew - chorusmaster's annotated vocal score of Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky, published 1950, performed in Sydney Town Hall, 1959
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Presented by John Wallace in 2002
Administrative / Biographical history
Richard G. Thew was a leading Sydney conductor, singing authority, organist and adjudicator. He was the founding choirmaster of the NSW Police Choir, which existed from 1933 to 1988. In 1959, the NSW Police Choir participated in the first performance in Australia of Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex at the Sydney Town Hall.
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MLMSS 7397
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1JkmwWxY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkmwWxY
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441754
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