John Antill music manuscript for his ballet suite 'Corroboree', [1940s], together with list of perfo...
John Antill music manuscript for his ballet suite 'Corroboree', [1940s], together with list of performances, 1950-1970
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1940-1970
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MLMSS 7072 (Safe 1/249)
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0.04 metres of textual material (1 box) - typescript, with manuscript annotations
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[1940s]: 'Corroboree'. Draft legend and choreography outline, pages 1-4. Typescript with ms. annotations. Includes original ink and watercolour illustrations by the composer.
[1940s]: 'Corroboree'. Music manuscript. Page 1 only. [In the composer's hand].
[1940s]-1970: 'Corroboree: A ballet suite for orchestra'. Full score. [In the co...
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John Antill music manuscript for his ballet suite 'Corroboree', [1940s], together with list of performances, 1950-1970
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General note
Selected pages from this item have been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection, 2006.
Other papers of John Antill are held by the National Library of Australia, at NLA MS 437.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823633
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Transferred from the Dennis Wolanski Library of the Performing Arts, Sydney Opera House, in 1996.
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John Henry Antill (1904-1986), composer and conductor, was born in Sydney on 8 April 1904. In 1925 he enrolled at the New South Wales Conservatorium, where he studied composition with Alfred Hill and violin with Gerald Walenn. Antill joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Sydney in 1934, where he was assistant music editor (1934-1947)...
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MLMSS 7072 (Safe 1/249)
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9Bv7pQ09
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9Bv7pQ09
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413502
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