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FESTIVAL OF PERTH PROGRAMMES(FROM 200O KNOWN AS PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL)

Date Venue Title & Author Director Producer Principals1953Undated His Majesty’s Theatre When we are married by

J.B.PriestleyFrank Ponton Michael Langham Bernadette Pratley;

Raymond Murr2 Jan-14 Mar 1953 University of W.A. Various Adult Education Board

3-17 Jan 1953 Sunken Gardens Dark of the Moon by Henry Richardson & William Berney

David Lopian David Lopian Phillip Edgley; Sylvia Sharp

15 Jan 1953 Somerville Auditorium An evening of ballet and dance

Adult Education Board W.G.James Aina Reega & Arvids Fibigs – Dancers Barbara Tyler - Violinist

17 Jan 1953 Somerville Auditorium Open air concert of the Beethoven Festival

Festival of Perth 1953 Conductor – Joseph Post Isador Goodman - Piano

20-23 Jan,27 Jan-7 Feb 1953

Somerville Auditorium King Richard III by William Shakespeare

Michael Langham James Bailey; Faith Clayton

24 Jan 1953 Somerville Auditorium Beethoven Festival W.G.James Joseph Post – Conductor Isador Goodman - Pianist

18-28 Feb 1953 Sunken Gardens Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Jeana Tweedie Neil Hunsley; John McCrackan

3-14 Mar 1953 Somerville Auditorium Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin

David Lopian Hazel Lewis; Fred Goddard & Cast

12 Mar 1953 Sunken Gardens Psyche – based on Fairy Tale by Louis Couperus

Frank Ponton – Stage Director

Meta Russcher Poole Johnson; Phyllis Everett

20-21 Mar 1953 Repertory Club The Brookhampton Bellringers and The Ukrainian Choir & Dance Group

Peter Kemmis - Compere

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25 Mar 1953 Repertory Theatre The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Sydney Davis Ronald Grahame; Ivan Smith; Wilfred Dowsett

Undated Not stated Vienna Boys Choir Festival of Perth 1954 Robert Kuhbacher Boys of the Choir195430 Dec-20 Mar 1954 Flyer Various VariousJan 1954 Sunken Gardens Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen Adult Education Board David Lopian Paul Nayton; Chris

Pendlebury7-31 Jan 1954 Art Gallery of W.A. Contemporary Australian

ArtVarious artists of Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures & Photos

23 Jan 1954 Sunken Gardens The Tudor Players Adult Education Board and W.A.Chamber Music Society

Sylvia Biddle - Soprano

Jan-Feb 1954 Somerville Auditorium Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Adult Education Board and Company of Four

John Casson Carol Darbyshire; Ruth Blown; James Bailey

Feb 1954 Somerville Auditorium Blossom Time adapted by Sydney Box

Edgar Nottage Des Banwell Clarke Scott; Wally Schleicher; Valerie Wynne

Feb 1954 Sunken Gardens Antigone by Sophocles University of W.A. and Graduate Dramatic Society

Jeana Tweedie Rayden James; Neil Hunsley; Lesley Williams

24 Feb 1954 Flyer Winthrop Hall 4th Somerville Concert Rudolf Pekarek W.A.Symphony OrchestraMar 1954 Somerville Auditorium Ring round the moon by

Jean AnouilhCompany of Four Coralie Condon Harold Harvey; James

CondonUndated Somerville Auditorium Les Sylphides & Amahl

and the night visitors by Gian-Carlo Menotti

Madame Kira Bousloff and Joanne Priest

Julianna Webster; Douglas Gilchrist; Graeme Campbell; Joyce Simmons

1955

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Jan 1955 Pamphlet VariousJan 1955 Sunken Gardens The lady’s not for burning

by Christopher FryAdult Education Board Nita Pannell Ian Tweedie; Rayden

James; Jan Shier14 Jan 1955 Winthrop Hall A concert of opera stars Adult Education Board Joyce Simmons – Soprano

Ronald Austron – Tenor Leonard Delany – B’tone Clifford Grant - Bass

15 Jan 1955 Somerville Auditorium 3rd Open air concert Adult Education Board ABC & W.A.Symphony Orchestra

John Farnsworth Hall; Igor Hmelnitsky – Pianist

Feb 1955 Somerville Auditorium Mary of Scotland by Maxwell Anderson

Adult Education Board Coralie Condon Dorothy Krantz; Gina Curtis; James Condon

Mar 1955 Sunken Gardens Psyche by Meta Russcher Frank Russcher Shabelewski Ramsay MacLean; Gheda Pusey

195630 Dec-17 Mar 1956 Festival Calendar

Various Various

Pamphlet Various Theatre & Films etcUndated 1956 Special Festival Concert

University String Orchestra; The Moongana Singers “Bastien and Bastienne”

Stephanie James – Musical Director

Colleen Clifford Frank Callaway; Donald Thornton; Stephen Dornan; Molly McGurk

Jan 1956 Sunken Gardens The Prodigious Snob by Moliere – adapted by Miles Malleson

Adult Education Board & The National Theatre

Nita Pannell Keith Eddington; Harry Phipps; W.Poole Johnson

7 Jan 1956 Somerville Auditorium 1st Open air concert ABC & W.A.Symphony Orchestra

John Farnsworth Hall; Irene Kohler – Pianist

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9-12 Jan 1956 Capitol Theatre Classical theatre of China Garnet H Carroll – John G.H.Carroll & J.C.Williamson Theatres

Various artists

11 Jan 1956 Somerville Auditorium 2nd Open air concert ABC & W.A.Symphony Orchestra

John Farnsworth Hall; Shirley Flesfader - Soprano

12 Jan 1956 Government House Pianoforte Recital by Irene Kohler

Adult Education Board Festival of Perth Committee

Irene Kohler

14 Jan 1956 Somerville Auditorium 3rd Open air concert ABC & W.A.Symphony Orchestra


17-28 Jan 1956 Somerville Auditorium Medea – adapted from Euripides Medea by Robinson Jeffers

Frank S Tait; J Nevin Tait Elizabethan Theatre & J.C.Williamson Theatres

Doris Fitton; Alistair Roberts; Judith Anderson

22 Jan 1956 Supreme Court Gardens Commemorative Concert – Occasion of official opening jubilee orchestral shell

Australian Broadcasting Commission


Feb 1956 Somerville Auditorium The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry

Company of Four & The National Theatre

Sydney Davis Colin McKenzie; Sandra O’Neil

18 Feb 1956 Winthrop Hall Special Mozart Concert Music Council of W.A. Colleen Clifford Vaughan Hanly – Conductor; Perth String Quartet – Nora Coalstad; Alan Rule

3-18 Mar 1956 Supreme Court Gardens 1st Festival open air art exhibition

Sponsored by the Sunday Times

Organised by Laurence Thomas – Director W.A. Art Gallery

Various artists

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9-17 Mar 1956 Royal King’s Park Tennis Club

Water follies of 1956 Aztec Services P/L Sam Snyder Joan Beals; Patti Cates

Pamphlet Various Various1957 Concert SeasonJan-Mar 1957 Music Drama Festival of Perth Publicity

CommitteeW.A.Govt Tourist Bureau

Dec-Feb 1957 Various Various W.A.Govt Tourist Bureau26 Feb-9 Mar 1957 Various Letter to Perth Music

Lovers; Progs; Special Announcement

Pages book lists VariousJan 1957 Sunken Gardens Cyrano De Bergerac by

Edmond RostandAdult Education Board Frank Baden-Powell John Kirkbride; Kay Taylor

Jan 1957 Sunken Gardens Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare

Adult Education Board Dramatic Societies of the University

Jeana Tweedie Peter Mann; Elspeth Angus; Norman Briers

Jan 1957 Somerville Auditorium Mungo’s Mansion by Walter Macken

Adult Education Board The National Theatre

Sol Sainken James Kemp; Bernadette Pratley

Jan 1957 Somerville Auditorium Festival of French films Under patronage of Monsieur R Loubere – Consul for France

Marcel Pagnol Francoise Rosay; Jean Murat; Micheline Cheirel


James Robertson; Stephanie James Piano; Vaughan Hanly Violin


James Robertson; Donald Thornton Piano; Molly McGurk Soprano

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Feb 1957 Somerville Auditorium Antigone by Jean Anouilh Adult Education Board and The National Theatre

Robin Lovejoy Ajames Bailey; Anne Haddy

Feb 1957 Somerville Auditorium Star dancers of India Adult Education Board By arrangement with Louise Lightfoot

Ibetombi; Shivaram

25 Feb 1957 Perth Art Gallery Festival of Australian Arts Adult Education BoardFeb-Mar 1957 Perth Art Gallery Festival of Australian Arts Adult Education Board Festival of Perth

Committee & associated bodies

Various artists

20-21,23 Dec 1957 Winthrop Hall Handel’s “Messiah” Frank Callaway ABC & W.A.Symphony Orchestra

Lorna McKean; Max Worthley

195820 Dec-21 Mar 1958 Various Music DramaFestival 1958 Celebrity ArtistsDec 1957-Jan 1958 W.A. Art Gallery Australian aboriginal artJan 1958 Sunken Gardens Ondine by Jean Giraudoux Adult Education Board

University Dramatic Society

Katharine Brisbane David Farr; Mary Reynolds

Jan 1958 Sunken Gardens Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Adult Education Board and The National Theatre

Peter Summerton Sam Harris; Anthony Stone


J Farnswoth Hall; Florence Taylor Contralto


J Farnswoth Hall; Josephine McKimmie

16 Jan 1958 Government House Ballroom

Recital by Florence Taylor Adult Education Board Festival of Perth Committee

Stephen Dornan Florence Taylor

18 Jan 1958 Somerville Auditorium 3rd Open air concert ABC & W.A.Symphony J Farnsworth Hall;

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Orchestra Florence Taylor ContraltoJan-Feb 1958 Somerville Auditorium And so to bed by

J.B.FaganStephen Dornan Peter Summerton Neville Teede; Alice

MallonFeb 1958 Somerville Auditorium Songs Ballet – Minuit

Place Pigalle Opera – Trial by Jury

Commercial Travellers’ Choir W.A. Ballet Company Gilbert & Sullivan Society

O.G.Campbell Egan Kira BousloffJ.C.Williamson Limited

Members of the Choir Members of the Ballet Members of the Cast

11 Feb 1958 Sunken Gardens Paolo and Francesca by Stephen Phillips

Adult Education Patch Theatre

Jean Rule Arthur Parham; Bruce Crowl

21 Feb-1 Mar 1958 Zoological Gardens Festival of Perth Fair/ Festival of W.A. Paintings

7 Mar 1958 Winthrop Hall Serenade Concert The Tudor Players The Moongana Singers

Adult Education Board Festival of Perth Committee

Stephen Dornan Singers and Players

23 Mar 1958 Zoological Gardens The Pied Piper of Hamelin by G.Rathbone

Doris Dival Edgar Nottage Festival Youth Choir

19592 Jan-28 Feb 1959 Various Various films and stage10-17 Jan 1959 Somerville Auditorium A.B.C. Orchestral Season Sam Bor Violin; Raymond

Lambert Piano10-17 Jan 1959 Somerville Auditorium Beethoven Festival of

Three ConcertsABC & W.A.Symphony Orchestra

Sir Bernard Heinze Sam Bor Violin; Raymond Lambert Piano

Jan 1959 Sunken Gardens The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare

Adult Education Board Graduate Dramatic Society

Peter Mann Michael Louis; Richard Lowe

Jan 1959 Somerville Auditorium Pagliacci by Leoncavallo Dalgerie by James

Stefan Haag Ronald Jackson; Joy Mammen; Elayne Sibbritt;

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Penberthy Gregory Dempsey19-31 Jan 1959 Sunken Gardens The Misanthrope by

MoliereAdult Education Board The National Theatre

Stefan Haag Rhoderick Walker; Terri Aldred

Jan-Feb 1959 Somerville Auditorium International Film Festival

9-21 Feb 1959 Perth Art Gallery Festival of Australian Arts Festival of Perth Committee

Feb 1959 Somerville Auditorium Picnic by William Inge Festival of Perth Committee The National Theatre

Peter Summerton Christine Pendlebury; Ron Graham

Feb 1959 Playhouse Dance Duo Ballet Dancers Festival of Perth Committee

Alex Von Swaine & Lisa Czobel Dancers; Yvonne Waldmeyer Piano

1960Jan 1960 Festival of Perth leaflet

Various Various

Jan 1960 Sunken Gardens Lysistrata by Aristophanes Festival of Perth Committee University & Graduate Dramatic Societies

Jeana Tweedie Faith Clayton; Joan Davies; Michele Brooking

Jan 1960 Sunken Gardens The Beaux Stratagem by George Farquhar

Festival of Perth Committee The National Theatre

Nita Pannell Bernard Shine; Adrian West

7 & 9 Jan 1960 Winthrop Hall The Australian Boys’ Choir Festival of Perth Committee

Members of the Choir; Anthony Fenelon Accompanist

16,21,23 Jan 1960 Somerville Auditorium W.A.Symphony Orchestra ABC & Festival of Perth Rudolf Pekarek Maurice Clare Violin;

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in three concerts Committee Moura Lympany Piano24 Jan 1960 Supreme Court Gardens Combined Brass Bands

ConcertFestival of Perth Committee W.A.Band Association (Inc)

Perth City Band; Air Force Association Band; The BP Band

27 & 30 Jan 1960 Winthrop Hall Solo Recitals Festival of Perth Committee

Moura Lympany Piano

Jan-Feb 1960 Somerville Auditorium Windsor Theatre

International Film Festival Festival of Perth Committee

Feb 1960 Sunken Gardens A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Festival of Perth Committee

Frieda & Seddon Vincent Keith Smith, Denice Bingley, Eric Carlin

Feb 1960 Somerville Auditorium Intimate Opera Season Festival of Perth Committee ABC & Australian Elizabethan Theatre

Donald Munro John Farnsworth Hall Conductor, Molly McGurk, Elaine Blight, Donald Munro, Alan Light, Neville Teede

3 Feb 1960 Invitation letter to official opening

3-16 Feb 1960 Skinner Galleries Henri Bastin Exhibition Festival of Perth Committee Museum of Modern Art of Australia

9-21 Feb 1960 Perth Art Gallery Festival of Australian Arts18-27 Feb 1960 Skinner Galleries Ernabella Mission Festival of Perth

Committee20 Feb 1960 Somerville Auditorium Final Festival Concert ABC & Festival of Perth

CommitteeJohn Farnsworth Hall WA Symphony Orchestra,

University Choral Society, Western Command Band,

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Lorna McKean Soprano1961 Ninth Festival Leaflet1961 Festival St Mary’s Cathedral Performance of

Compositions by C.Edgar Ford

The Society of St Cecilia Choir, Rev Albert Lynch Conductor Mary Kerr Organist

1961 Festival ABC Studio 620 Two free lunch hour concerts

ABC and Verdon Williams Graham Wood Leader

Jan-Feb 1961 International Film Festival Festival of Perth Committee

Jan 1961 Sunken Gardens The Miser by Moliere Festival of Perth Committee Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust

Alexander Archdale, Ric Hutton, Michael Laurence

1 Jan 1961 Cathedral Church of St George, Perth

Service of Evening Prayer

17-25 Jan 1961 WA Art Gallery Royal Monuments in Westminister Abbey & Qantas 40th Anniversary Poster Competition

Festival of Perth Committee WA Art Gallery

18 Jan 1961 St George’s College Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Murder in the Cathedral


20 Jan 1961 St Thomas More College The World of Edward Lear, The Mad Tea Party, The Play Within


24 Jan 1961 St Catherine’s College Under Milk Wood Festival of Perth Committee

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19,21,25 Jan 1961 Somerville Auditorium Three Celebrity Festival Concerts

ABC & Festival of Perth Committee

Sir Bernard Heinze WA Symphony Orchestra Tatyana Nikolayeva Pianist

21-29 Jan 1961 Supreme Court Gardens Outdoor art exhibition Festival of Perth Committee and W.A. Art Gallery

27 Jan-11 Feb 1961 Sunken Gardens The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

Festival of Perth Committee and The National Theatre

Raymond Westwell Alexander Archdale, Joan MacArthur

28 Jan 1961 Winthrop Hall Solo Recital ABC & Festival of Perth Committee

Tatyana Nikolayeva Solo Pianist

31 Jan 1961 St Catherine’s College Hall Guitar Recital Festival of Perth Committee and Classic Guitar Society

Sadie Bishop Guitar, Betty Hooper Soprano, Wm Frater Flautist

3-11 Feb 1961 Somerville Auditorium Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck

Festival of Perth Committee and John Young

John Farnsworth Hall WA Symphony Orchestra Betty Hooper, Lorna McKean

6-18 Feb 1961 Skinner Galleries Exhibition of oil paintings Festival of Perth Committee and Skinner Galleries

David Strachan

13 Feb 1961 Winthrop Hall Recital of poetry and music


Alec King Reader, Trevor Jones Harpsichord, Vaughan Hanley Violin, Stephen Dornan Piano

14-15 Feb 1961 Somerville Auditorium The Bryce Rohde Jazz Quartet


Bryce Rohde Quartet

16-25 Feb 1961 Sunken Gardens Insect Play ’61 by Karel Colin Ballantyne Basil Balme, Jack Phillips,

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and Joseph Capek University & Graduate Dramatic Socs

Ron Erceg

19621962 Tenth festival booklet of

programmes1962 Oratorical Competition Rostrum Movement1962 Perth the city of festival

and the games1962 Notes on the festivalUndated The no-hopers by Peter

BateyAdult Education Board Raymond Westwell

Judy McCabe, Joan Bruce

1 Jan 1962 His Majesty’s Theatre Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare with the Old Vic Company

Robert Helpmann Gordon Jacob Vivien Leigh, Paul Harris, Frank Middlemass

1 Jan-17 Feb 1962 International Film Festival10-20 Jan 1962 Sunken Gardens Under Milk Wood by

Dylan ThomasUniversity and Graduate Dramatic Society

Wal Cherry Bruce Williams, David Goodall

11 & 13 Jan 1962 Playhouse Theatre Two Chamber Music Recitals


Jiri Tancibudek Oboe, Sybil Copeland Viola, Henry Wenig Cello

16 Jan 1962 Perth Town Hall Exhibition opening of British Travel Book

British Council and Festival of Perth Committee and Aust Booksellers Assoc

Opened by Professor Fred Alexander

17 Jan 1962 Somerville Auditorium First Celebrity Festival Concert


John Hopkins WA Symphony Orchestra, Fou Ts’Ong Piano

18 Jan 1962 Guild Courtyard Growing up in Australia University Literary Society Alec King, Leonard

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and Festival of Perth Committee

Burrows, Richard Hearder, Neville Teede

20 Jan 1962 Somerville Auditorium Second Celebrity Festival Concert



24 Jan 1962 Somerville Auditorium Third Celebrity Festival Concert



25 Jan-10 Feb 1962 Sunken Gardens Murder in the Cathedral by T.S.Eliot

Festival of Perth Committee National Theatre

Raymond Westwell Joan Macarthur, Eileen Colocott

26 & 31 Jan 1962 Playhouse Theatre Dramatic Recital Festival of Perth Committee and Australian Elizabethan Theatre

Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Lewis Casson

27 Jan 1962 Winthrop Hall Fou Ts’Ong ABC & Festival of Perth Committee

Fou Ts’Ong Piano

2,3,6,8,9,10,13,15-17 Feb 1962

Somerville Auditorium La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi

Stefan Haag George Tintner, Vaughan Hanly

WA Symphony Orchestra

3,6 Feb 1962 Playhouse Theatre Dramatic Recital Festival of Perth Committee and Australian Elizabethan Theatre

Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Lewis Casson

17 Feb 1962 Supreme Court Gardens Jazz Concert Festival of Perth Committee

Ron Moret The Riversiders, Billy Clowes

3 Mar 1962 Somerville Auditorium Special Festival Concert Music Council of WA Colleen Clifford Donald Thornton, Molly McGurk

19631963 Festival booklet1963 Oratorical competition Rostrum Movement1963 WA Art Gallery Perth prize for Festival of Perth

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contemporary art Committee and Art Gallery Society of WA

1-12 Jan 1963 Playhouse Theatre Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Festival of Perth Committee and National Theatre Inc

Joan Pope M Poole-Johnson, James Bailey

1-12 Jan 1963 Windsor Theatre International film festival Gualtiero Jacopetti4-19 Jan 1963 Sunken Gardens Bartholomew Fair by Ben

JonsonJohn Tasker Kevin Hodges, Molly

McLeod, Peter Cuffley4-19 Jan 1963 Sunken Gardens Hero & Leander7 Jan 1963 St Mary’s Cathedral Festival of Religious Music Festival of Perth

Committee and Michael Brimer

Neville Teede Madrigal Singers, Uni A Capella Choir

13 Jan 1963 ABC Building Perth Australian – Music, Literature & Painting Programme of Poetry Readings

Festival of Perth Committee and ABC

Oriel String Quartet, Alice Carrard

15-26 Jan 1963 Skinner Galleries Exhibition of Australian aboriginal bark paintings

16 Jan 1963 Somerville Auditorium First Festival Concert Festival of Perth Committee and ABC

Joseph Post WA Symphony Orchestra, Julius Katchen Piano

17 Jan-2 Feb 1963 Playhouse Theatre A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

Ronald Denson Robert Speaight, Neville Teede

19 Jan 1963 Somerville Auditorium Second Festival Concert Festival of Perth Committee and ABC

Joseph Post WA Symphony Orchestra, Julius Katchen Piano

22,24-26,28 Jan 1963 Somerville Auditorium Chitrasena Ceylon Ballet Festival of Perth Committee and Australian

Troupe of Dancers and Musicians

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Elizabethan Theatre23 Jan 1963 Somerville Auditorium Third Festival Concert Festival of Perth

Committee and ABCJoseph Post WA Symphony Orchestra,

Julius Katchen Piano24 Jan-16 Feb 1963 WA Art Gallery Perth Prize 1963 Festival of Perth

Committee and Art Gallery Society of WA

25 Jan 1963 Winthrop Hall Julius Katchen Festival of Perth Committee and ABC

Julius Katchen

25 Jan 1963 Write-ups on the theatre29 Jan-2 Feb 1963

4-13 Feb 1963

His Majesty’s Theatre The Australian Ballet Les Sylphides Don Quixote Swan Lake

Edgley & Dawe Noel Smith Marilyn Jones, Garth Welch, Leon Kellaway, Kathleen Gorham

29 Jan 1963 His Majesty’s Theatre Australian Ballet Peggy van Praagh29 Jan 1963 Letter from Festival of

Perth to Pary Bookings. Details of Repertoire

2 Feb 1963 Basil Kirke Studio Chamber Music Recital Festival of Perth Committee and ABC

Oriel String Quartet, William Herbert Tenor, Stephanie James Piano

4 Feb 1963 Skinner Galleries Paintings by Fred Jessup5 Feb 1963 St George’s Cathedral Second Concert of Festival

of Religious MusicMichael Brimer Neville Teede Madrigal Singers, Uni A

Capella Choir, Undergraduate Choral Society

5,7,9 Feb 1963 Centre Court King’s Park Tennis Club

Col Joye and the Joy Boys, The Ray Price Jazz Quartet

Festival of Perth Committee and TVW Ltd

Murray Rose Judy Stone, Judy Cannon

6-16 Feb 1963 Playhouse Theatre The Fantasticks by Tom Stefan Haag Music by Harvey L Ernest Parham, Judith

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Jones Schmidt Arthy7 Feb 1963 St Andrew’s Church Third Concert in the

Festival of Religious MusicMichael Brimer Madrigal Singers, William

Herbert Tenor9 Feb 1963 Wesley Church Fourth Concert in the

Festival of Religious MusicMichael Brimer Uni A Capella Choir,

William Herbert Tenor, Lexie Burrows

12-15 Feb 1963 St George’s Cathedral The Play of Daniel by Noah Greenberg

Michael Brimer Neville Teede

29 Dec 1963 Cathedral Church of St George

Evening Prayer

19641964 Festival Booklet1964 First Programme Draft1964 Poster competition1964 International Film Festival1964 The Pleasure of His

Company by Samuel Taylor & Cornelia Otis Skinner

Edgar Metcalfe Tony Howes, Ron Graham, Pamela Mallett, James Bailey

2 Jan-29 Feb 1964 Telegrams received for the New Fortune Theatre

2-15 Jan 1964 Playhouse Theatre Cinderella Edgar Metcalfe Eileen Colocott, Ron Graham

10-18 Jan 1964 Sunken Gardens Thieves’ Carnival by Jean Anouilh

Colleen Clifford Robert Nussbaum, Margaret Reynolds

15 Jan 1964 Somerville Auditorium First Festival Concert ABC Carlo Zecchi WA Symphony Orchestra, Allyne Tilsed Flautist

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16-29 Jan 1964 Playhouse Theatre Black Theatre of Prague Jiri Srnec Jiri Srnec, Zdena Srncova17-31 Jan 1964 Council House Exhibition of

Contemporary Indian ArtSponsored by Air India

18 Jan 1964 Somerville Auditorium Second Festival Concert ABC Carlo Zecchi Berl Senofsky Violin21 Jan 1964 Sunken Gardens Visions in a Brutal

LandscapeFestival of Perth Committee

Joan Bruce, Neville Teede, Margaret Ford

22 Jan 1964 Somerville Auditorium Third Festival Concert ABC Carlo Zecchi Berl Senofsky Violin24 Jan 1964 Winthrop Hall Recital by Berl Senofsky ABC Stephen Dornan29 Jan 1964 New Fortune Theatre Hamlet Prince of

Denmark by William Shakespeare

Jeana Bradley Philip Parsons Ian Tweedie, Neville Teede, James Smillie

31 Jan,3,5,7-8,11,13,15 Feb 1964

Playhouse Theatre The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Mozart

Festival of Perth Committee and Australian Elizabethan Theatre

Walter Deseo Elizabethan Trust Opera Company, John Germain

1,4,6,8,10,12,14-15 Feb 1964

Playhouse Theatre La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini

Festival of Perth Committee and Australian Elizabethan Theatre

John Young Elizabethan Trust Opera Company, M Sutherland

3,5 Feb 1964 Basil Kirke Memorial Studio

Jose Luis Gonzalez Festival of Perth Committee

Jose Luis Gonzalez

9,16 Feb 1964 Basil Kirke Memorial Studio

Shakespeare’s England ABC Philip Parsons, David Tunley

Molly McGurk Soprano, Bruce Martin Bass, Kathleen Callaway

10 Feb 1964 St Mary’s Cathedral Organ Recital by Michael Brimer

Festival of Perth Committee and The Cathedral Admin

Michael Brimer

19-29 Feb 1964 Playhouse Theatre The Devils from the book The Devils of Loudon by

Edgar Metcalfe Frederic Lees, James Bailey, Ron Graham,

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Aldous Huxley (by John Whiting)

James Beattie, Judy Wilson

26,29 Feb 1964 New Fortune Theatre First of two serenade concerts

Verdon Williams The Festival Ensemble, The Perth Sinfonietta

24 Dec 1964 Claude Hotchin Art Gallery

An Antique Teapot Competition & Exhibition

Boans of Perth and The Tea Bureau of Ceylon

19651965 Festival Leaflet1965 Sunken Gardens Mother Courage by

Bertold BrechtJeana Bradley Ray Harwood, Faith

Clayton1965 WA Art Gallery Elizabeth Durack Paintings

& Drawings1965 New Fortune Theatre Othello by William

ShakespeareRon Haddrick

1965 New Fortune Theatre The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare

Edgar Metcalfe

1965 The Samos Miniatures Travelling Exhibition

3 Jan 1965 St George’s Cathedral Evening Prayer5 Jan 1965 Playhouse Theatre Aladdin Edgar Metcalfe Terry Ward, Rosemary

Barr8-9 Jan 1965 Sunken Gardens Australia’s Golden Age or

Colonial GooseJoan Pope Patricia King, Collin

O’Brien8-20 Jan 1965 International Film Festival Festival of Perth

Committee9 Jan 1965 Winthrop Hall Maid of the Mill – a song

cycle by Franz SchubertFestival of Perth Committee

Stephanie James Piano, William Herbert Tenor

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12 Jan 1965 Claude Hotchin Art Gallery

Joint Exhibition – Paintings by Senana Senanayake and Exhibition of Teapots

Boans of Perth & Festival of Perth Committee with The Tea Bureau of Ceylon

Opened by Mr D.S. Abeyagunawardena

12 Jan 1965 Courtyard of the Guild of Undergraduates Building

Poets’ Choice Festival of Perth Committee and The West Coast Writers

13 Jan 1965 Somerville Auditorium First Festival of Perth Promenade Concert

ABC John Farnsworth Hall Lance Dossor Pianist

14 Jan 1965 Playhouse Theatre Diary of a Madman by Gogol – adapted by Peter O’Shaughnessy

Peter O’Shaughnessy Peter O’Shaughnessy

16 Jan 1965 Somerville Auditorium Second Festival of Perth Promenade Concert

ABC John Farnsworth Hall Lance Dossor Pianist

18 Jan 1965 Winthrop Hall Ceremony to mark the installation of the organ

University of WA Michael Brimer Michael Brimer

18-19,22,26,29-30 Jan,2,6,9,13,15,17 Feb 1965

Winthrop Hall and Basil Kirke Studio

Bach Festival of 12 Festival of Perth Committee and ABC

Michael Brimer, Vaughan Hanly

21,28 Jan, 4,11,18 Feb 1965

Basil Kirke Studio Twentieth Century Music Festival of Perth Committee and ABC

Trevor Jones

23 Jan 1965 Winthrop Hall Wind Ensemble Festival of Perth Committee

University of Adelaide Wind Quartet, Pat Brislan Horn, Lance Dossor Piano

25 Jan-6 Feb 1965 Playhouse Theatre A Festival Ballet Season Coppelia

Ray Powell John Farnsworth Hall Robyn Croft, Douglas Gilchrist

25 Jan-6 Feb 1965 Playhouse Theatre A Festival Ballet Season Ray Powell John Farnsworth Hall Julie Clark, Neville Burns,

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Sea Drift; Once upon a Whim; Coppelia

Marianne Little

Feb 1965 Antique Teapot Competition & Exhibit

2 Feb 1965 Skinner Galleries Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Paintings

Festival of Perth Committee and Skinner Galleries

2-14 Feb 1965 Skinner Galleries T.E. Wardle invitation art prize


8 Feb 1965 Winthrop Hall Pauline O’Connor Festival of Perth Committee

Pauline O’Connor

16 Feb 1965 Skinner Galleries Exhibition of Pastels & Etchings


20 Feb 1965 Winthrop Hall Final Concert of the 1965 Festival of Perth


John Farnsworth Hall University Choral Society, Molly McGurk Soprano

19661966 Music of Britain ABC – University of WA

Dept of Music1966 W.A. Art Gallery Anniversary Exhibition

Jesse Jewhurst Hilder1966 Skinner Galleries New Paintings by Charles

BlackmanJan-Mar 1966 Leaflet of Festival4 Jan-31 Mar 1966 ABC Radio Fine Music Stanford Robinson

introduces John Shirley-Georges Tzipine, Rita Streich, Heather Harper,

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Quirk & Melos Ensemble Mstislav Rostropovich28 Jan-12 Mar 1966 Guide to the 14th Annual

Festival of Perth28 Jan-12 Mar 1966 International Film Festival Festival of Perth

Committee28 Jan-12 Feb 1966 New Fortune Theatre Romeo and Juliet by

William ShakespeareEdgar Metcalfe Peter Rowley, Rosemary

GerretteFeb-Mar 1966 W.A. Art Gallery Abstract Watercolours by

14 Americans1-12 Feb 1966 Playhouse Theatre Tintookies by Peter

ScrivenPeter Scriven Penny Hall, Robert Peet

1 Feb 1966 Winthrop Hall Music of Britain ABC – University of WA Dept of Music

WA Symphony Orchestra, Molly McGurk Soprano

2 Feb 1966 Skinner Galleries Preview of Exhibition of Paintings by Charles Blackman

3-19 Feb 1966 The Old Asylum – Fremantle

“Western Gateway” – Son Et Lumiere

Fremantle City Council and R & I Bank

Allan Aldous Allan Aldous


Vaughan Hanly, Graham Wood Violin

5 Feb 1966 Winthrop Hall Winterreise Song Cycle by Franz Schubert


David Galliver Tenor, Stephen Dornan Piano

6 Feb 1966 Cathedral Church of Saint George

Evening Prayer

7 Feb 1966 Skinner Galleries T.E. Wardle invitation art prize

8 Feb 1966 Winthrop Hall Music of Britain ABC – University of WA Vaughan Hanly, Jack

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Dept of Music Harrison Clarinet9-12 Feb 1966 Basil Kirke Studio Season of Intimate Opera Festival of Perth

Committee and ABC, Verdon Williams Musical Director

Glenys Fowles, John Christie, John Nicholson

9-15 Feb 1966 Sunken Gardens International Folk Dances Festival of Perth Committee and WA Ballet Company




Vaughan Hanly, Stephen Dornan Piano



14 & 16 Feb 1966 Winthrop Hall Some Famous European Organs


15-26 Feb 1966 Playhouse Theatre A Break in the Music by Alan Seymour

Festival of Perth Committee and Australian Elizabethan Trust

George Ogilvie Alan Hopgood, Gerda Nicholson



18-19 Feb 1966 Winthrop Hall University of WA Choral Society with WA Symphony Orchestra


Prof Frank Callaway Molly McGurk Soprano, Arnold Matters Baritone

18-26 Feb 1966 Sunken Gardens Bush Ballads by The Bandicoots


John Manifold, Katherine Manifold, Eric Nord, Douglas Eaton

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18 Feb-3 Mar 1966 Adult Education Art Studio

Exhibitions by Western Australian Art Groups


21 Feb 1966 Skinner Galleries Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Paintings


Opened by Robert Melville

21 Feb-5 Mar 1966 Winthrop Hall St George’s Cathedral

The Voyage Theatre in Macbeth in Camera & A Sleep of Prisoners

Harold Lang Harold Lang, Greville Hallam, Nicholas Amer

21 Feb-12 Mar 1966 Skinner Galleries T.E. Wardle invitation art prize


Judges by Robert Melville

22 Feb 1966 Basil Kirke Studio Music of Britain ABC – University of WA Dept of Music

Vaughan Hanly, Stephen Dornan Piano

22 Feb-8 Mar 1966 Capitol Theatre Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin

Australian Elizabethan Trust – Harry M Miller – NZ Opera Company

Ella Gerber Delores Ivory, Inia Te Wiata, Loretta Fowlkes


Madrigal Singers

25 Feb-5 Mar 1966 Somerville Auditorium The Kalakshetra Dancers of Madras, The Coronation of the Sacred Sandals, Shyama

Festival of Perth Committee and The Arts Council Australia

Sponsored by the Government of India

Rukmini Devi and members of the Company


The Oriel String Quartet

27 Feb 1966 Supreme Court Gardens Maori Concert Haere-mai Maori members of Porgy and Bess Company

Members of the Company

28 Feb 1966 Winthrop Hall Music of Britain ABC – University of WA John Hind Organ,

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Dept of Music Marcelline Burrows28 Feb-8 Mar 1966 His Majesty’s Theatre A Funny Kind of Evening Festival of Perth

Committee – Eric EdgleyDavid Kossoff

2 Mar 1966 Basil Kirke Studio Music of Britain ABC – University of WA Dept of Music

The Oriel String Quartet

2-5 Mar 1966 Hale School Hall Meet my Folks by Gordon Crosse, The Happy Prince by Malcolm Williamson


Guild of Young Artists Opera Group

2-12 Mar 1966 The Playhouse Athens Drama Company Iphigenia in Aulis Lysistrata

Costis Michaelides Members of the Company

3 Mar 1966 Winthrop Hall Music of Britain ABC – University of WA Dept of Music

5 Mar 1966 Winthrop Hall An Organ Recital by Dr J.V. Peters


8 Mar 1966 Basil Kirke Studio Music of Britain ABC – University of WA Dept of Music

WA Bach Society, Allyne Tilsed Piano

12 Mar 1966 Capitol Theatre London Symphony Orchestra

ABC – British Council/Peter Stuyvesant

Istvan Kertesz John Georgiadis Leader

19671967 Festival Booklet1967 Festival Leaflet1967 Page 3 Members of the

National Theatre Concession Prices

7 Jan 1967 West Australian Newspaper

Guide to the Fifteenth Festival of Perth

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19 Jan 1967 Basil Kirke Studio Australian Contemporary Music in the Air Concert

Festival of Perth – University of WA

Alice Carrard Piano, Oriel String Quartet, John Exton Violin

28 Jan-4 Mar 1967 International Film Festival Festival of Perth Committee

28 Jan-4 Mar 1967 West Australian Newspaper

Festival of Perth Press Book (Reviews)

28 Jan-11 Feb 1967 New Fortune Theatre The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer

John Tasker Kenneth Goodlet, Richard Pusey, James Bailey

29 Jan 1967 Basil Kirke Studio Contemporary Australian Chamber Music

Festival of Perth Committee - University of WA Dept of Music

Alice Carrard Piano, Oriel String Quartet, John Exton Violin

29-30 Jan 1967 Supreme Court Gardens Modern Sound ‘67 Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Bruce Wishart Keith McGowan, Glenn Hitchcock

31 Jan 1967 Skinner Galleries Exhibition of Paintings by Elwyn Lynn


Opened by Stefan Haag

31 Jan-8 Feb 1967 Skinner Galleries Exhibition by Elwyn Lynn1 Feb 1967 Somerville Auditorium ABC Promenade 1 ABC Thomas Mayer WA Symphony Orchestra,

Bruce Martin Baritone1-11 Feb 1967 Playhouse Theatre My Life – with an interval

for Asperin by Bernard Hesling


Alan Harvey Margaret Ford, Peter Collingwood, Peter Morris

3-11 Feb 1967 Kings Park Tennis Club Aboriginal Theatre Festival of Perth Committee and Australian Elizabethan Trust

Stefan Haag Company of 30 from Arnhemland

4 Feb 1967 Supreme Court Gardens Festival Band Evening Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

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4 Feb 1967 Somerville Auditorium ABC Promenade II ABC WA Symphony Orchestra, Margot Robertson Soprano, Giuseppe Bertinazzo Tenor, Vaughan Hanly Violin

5 Feb 1967 Supreme Court Gardens Festival Big Band Night Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Peter Harrison Compere

5 Feb 1967 St George’s Cathedral Evening Prayer6-18 Feb 1967 Hole in the Wall Theatre off the Cuff Festival of Perth

Committee9 Feb 1967 Winthrop Hall The Vespers of 1610 by

Claudio MonteverdiFestival of Perth Committee

Laughton Harris Conductor

WA Bach Society & Orchestra

10-18 Feb 1967 St George’s Cathedral The Second Annual Exhibition of Art on a Religious Theme

Festival of Perth Committee – The Archbishop of Perth & Dean of Perth

11 Feb 1967 Supreme Court Gardens Festival Continental Night Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Eric Walters Compere

12 Feb 1967 Supreme Court Gardens Festival Singalong Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Peter Chaplin Compere & Producer

13-18 Feb 1967 Winthrop Hall Sound and Image Festival of Perth Committee

13-25 Feb 1967 His Majesty’s Theatre Opera 1967 The Elizabethan Trust Opera Company. Tosca – G Puccini, Don Pasquale – Donizetti

Edgley & Dave Leonard Lee, Neil Warren Smith

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14-16 Feb 1967 Conference Room – Economics Dept University of WA

Writer’s Seminar “The Writer in the Modern World”

Festival of Perth Committee and Fellowship of Australian Writers

14,16,18 Feb 1967 Sunken Gardens I Protest University English Dept West Coast Writers

Peter O’Shaughnessy, Faith Clayton

14 Feb-4 Mar 1967 Skinner Galleries Festival Invitation Art Prize


Judged by Patrick Heron

16 Feb 1967 Basil Kirke Studio Music in Miniature Festival of Perth Committee

Wendy Nash Piano, Margot Robertson Soprano

18 Feb 1967 New Fortune Theatre Il Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi

John Hind Joan Pope David Galliver Tenor, Lesley Perrin Soprano, The Oriel String Quartet

18 Feb 1967 Supreme Court Gardens Festival Folk Evening Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Gerry Atkinson

19 Feb 1967 Supreme Court Gardens Festival Continental Concert

Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Eric Walters Compere

21 Feb 1967 Adelphi Hotel Festino Nella Sera del Giovedi Grasso Avanti Cena by Adriano Banchieri


John Hind Neville Teede, Madrigal Singers

22 Feb-4 Mar 1967 Sunken Gardens The Perth Regional Ballet Company


22 Feb-4 Mar 1967 Playhouse Theatre Oh What A Lovely War Edgar Metcalfe Rosemary Barr, James Beattie

22 Feb-19 Mar 1967 WA Art Gallery Exhibition of Art by Festival of Perth

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Kathleen O’Connor Committee and Art Gallery Board

23 Feb 1967 Hole in the Wall Theatre The Owl and the Pussycat by Wilton Manhoff

Frank Baden-Powell Chris Johnson, Kirsty Child


Jiri Tancibudek Oboe, David Galliver Tenor

23 Feb-4 Mar 1967 Claude Hotchin Gallery Perth Society of Artists Festival of Perth Committee

Opened by J.A.B. Campbell


David Galliver Tenor, David Cubbin Flute

25 Feb 1967 Supreme Court Gardens Festival Talent Quest Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

John Luke Compere Margaret Helfgott, Peter Chaplin

26 Feb 1967 Supreme Court Gardens Showcase ‘67 Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Lloyd Lawson Compere Clem Grogan, West Coast Trio, Showcase Orchestra

27 Feb 1967 Basil Kirke Studio University of Adelaide Wind Quintet


David Cubbin Flute, Stanley Fry Horn

1 Mar 1967 Winthrop Hall ABC. Third Orchestral Concert

ABC John Hopkins WA Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Wind Quartet

4 Mar 1967 Winthrop Hall ABC. Fourth Orchestral Concert

ABC John Hopkins University Choral Society & Combined Choirs, Wendy Nash Piano, Molly McGurk Soprano

19681968 Music in the Festival1968 Basil Kirke Studio Four Australian

Composers’ WorkshopsABC and Festival of Perth Committee

1968 International Film Festival

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2-24 Feb 1968 Hole in the Wall Theatre An Anti Cultural Evening with Frank Lazarus & Maggie Soboil

Festival of Perth Frank Lazarus, Maggie Soboil

3 Feb 1968 Winthrop Hall The Seven Ages of Man by WA Camera Club & Club F.8


Opened by D.J.Burton

3 Feb-9 Mar 1968 Various Various Catalogue4 Feb 1968 Beatty Park Aquatic

CentreOfficial Opening 16th

Annual Festival of PerthCity of Perth and Festival of Perth Committee

Citizens of Perth

4-19 Feb 1968 Skinner Galleries Exhibition of Recent Works by Frank Hodgkinson


5,7,9 Feb 1968 University of WA Contemporary Russian Poetry

5-17 Feb 1968 Playhouse Theatre Halloran’s Little Boat by Thomas Keneally

Irene Mitchell Nigel Prescott Paul Karo, Sandy Gore

6 Feb 1968 Winthrop Hall A Piano Recital by Peter Cooper


Nancy Walker Peter Cooper

7-24 Feb 1968 New Fortune Theatre Richard III by William Shakespeare

Dr Philip Parsons Philip Parsons Martin Redpath, Faith Clayton

10 Feb 1968 Somerville Auditorium Parisienne Programme ABC WA Symphony Orchestra, Peter Cooper Piano

11 Feb 1968 Supreme Court Gardens Jazz Jamboree 1968 Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

WA Musician’s Benevolent Fund (Inc)

12 Feb 1968 Playhouse Theatre Lunch Hour Lecture Series – Modern American Literature – Peter Cowan

Festival of Perth

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12 Feb 1968 Winthrop Hall A Recital – Organ by Gillian Weir


Nancy Walker Gillian Weir

14 Feb 1968 Winthrop Hall A Recital – Organ by Gillian Weir


Nancy Walker Gillian Weir

14 Feb 1968 Playhouse Theatre Lunch Hour Lecture Series – Freedom and Experiment – Peter Cowan

Festival of Perth

14-24 Feb 1968 Sunken Gardens Moon on a Rainbow Shawl by Errol John


Harrold Walsh Nita Pannell, Paul Smith, Michael Wickers

15 Feb 1968 WA Art Gallery Invitation to Opening of Exhibition – Design in Scandinavia

Board of WA Art Gallery

16 Feb 1968 Winthrop Hall Official Opening of Seven WA Artists


Gerald Glaskin

17 Feb 1968 Somerville Auditorium Viennese Programme ABC Henry Krips WA Symphony Orchestra, Vaughan Hanly Violin

17-27 Feb 1968 Winthrop Hall An Art Exhibition by Seven WA Artists


18 Feb 1968 Supreme Court Gardens National Showcase (WA) 1968

Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Lloyd Lawson Compere

19 Feb-2 Mar 1968 Playhouse Theatre Staircase by Charles Dyer George Fairfax Nigel Prescott The St Martin’s Theatre Company

20 Feb 1968 Seacrest Rrestaurant Festival Banquet and Intimate Opera


20 Feb 1968 Seacrest Rrestaurant Intimate Opera at a Banquet

Verdon Williams John Nicholson Tenor, Doris Dodd Soprano, Sam

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Atlas25 Feb 1968 Supreme Court Gardens International Fiesta Festival of Perth

Committee and R & I BankHarry Bluck, Ian Beatty Compere

25 Feb 1968 Skinner Galleries Oriental Exhibition Festival of Perth Committee and Skinner Galleries

Rt Hon Paul Hasluck

25 Feb-5 Mar 1968 Skinner Galleries Oriental Exhibition Festival of Perth Committee

David Jones Art Gallery

26 Feb 1968 Playhouse Theatre Lunch Hour Series of Lectures/Readings


John Shaw Neilson, Kenneth Slessor, R.D. Fitzgerald

28 Feb 1968 Playhouse Theatre Lectures – Programme 2 by Judith Wright

Festival of Perth Judith Wright

29 Feb 1968 St George’s College Lectures – Judith Wright Festival of Perth Judith Wright1,2,8,9 Mar 1968 Law Building Poetry Readings Festival of Perth Leonard Burrows, Leslie

Perrin Vocalist2 Mar 1968 Winthrop Hall Recital by Rita Streich Festival of Perth

CommitteeNancy Walker Rita Streich, Maurice Till

Piano, Jack Harrison Clarinet

3 Mar 1968 Supreme Court Gardens Brass Band Spectacular Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Ian Beatty Compere The WA Band Association (Inc)

4-9 Mar 1968 Playhouse Theatre Lucero Tena Lucero Tena5-6 Mar 1968 His Majesty’s Theatre Jacques Louissier Trio Festival of Perth

Committee and Adelaide Festival Arts

Jacques Loussier Piano, Pierre Michelot Bass, Christian Garros Percussion

7 Mar 1968 Winthrop Hall The Jerusalem Chamber Shimon Mishori Mendi Rodan

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Orchestra9 Mar 1968 Winthrop Hall The Jerusalem Chamber

OrchestraFestival of Perth Committee and Musica Viva Society of Australia

Mendi Rodan

19691969 Music in the Festival1969 R & I Bank Festival of Aboriginal Art

Prize – Entry Form & List of Entries

Undated Cathedral of St George Service The Very Reverend John Hazlewood

Cathedral Choir

Undated Tour The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust/Australian Council for the Arts

J.S.Ostoja-Kotkowski, Ian Davidson

1 Feb-8 Mar 1969 Somerville Auditorium International Film Festival Festival of Perth Committee

1 Feb-8 Mar 1969 Booking Guide1,7 Feb 1969 West Australian

NewspaperMagazine Section & Review

Sally Trethowan

1-22 Feb 1969 Octagon Theatre Henry IV – Part I by William Shakespeare

John Sumner Raymond Westwell, Robin Ramsay

2 Feb 1969 Beatty Park Aquatic Centre

Official Opening Concert Perth City Council and R & I Bank

John Fryer, Peter Harrison Comperes

3-8 Feb 1969 Playhouse Theatre The Impola Song and Dance Ensemble


3-22 Feb 1969 Old Fire Station Gallery Exhibition of Melanesian Festival of Perth

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Art Committee5-15 Feb 1969 Sunken Gardens Ballet Workshop Diana Waldron Robin Haig, Laurence

Bishop6 Feb 1969 Basil Kirke Studio Composers’ Workshop

ConcertsFestival of Perth

6,13,20,27 Feb 1969 Basil Kirke Studio Four Australian Composers’ Workshops


7-26 Feb 1969 Winthrop Hall Contemporary Art Society Exhibition

Festival of Perth Committee and Contemporary Art Society

9 Feb 1969 Supreme Court Gardens National Showcase Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Harry Bluck Clem Grogan etc

9 Feb 1969 St George’s Cathedral Service of Praise and Thanksgiving

Preacher Very Reverend John Hazlewood, M.A.

9-25 Feb 1969 John Gild Galleries Sydney Ball Paintings and Sculpture

Festival of Perth Opened by Prof A Edwards

10 Feb 1969 New Govt Building opp King’s Park entrance

Official opening of International Poster Exhibition


Opened by Mr Bill Warnock

10-24 Feb 1969 Govt Building Foyer An Exhibition of International Posters from “Graphis” of Switzerland

Festival of Perth Committee and Perth Technical College

11 Feb 1969 Octagon Theatre Chamber Brass Players Festival of Perth Committee

11 Feb 1969 Winthrop Hall E.Power Biggs Recital Festival of Perth Committee

E.Power Biggs at the McGillivray Organ

11-15 Feb 1969 Perth Town Hall Pop Poets Festival of Perth Bruce Williams

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Committee13 Feb 1969 Basil Kirke Studio Composers’ Workshop

ConcertsFestival of Perth

13 Feb 1969 Winthrop Hall E.Power Biggs Recital Festival of Perth Committee

E.Power Biggs at the McGillivray Organ

13 Feb 1969 Reception Suite of Perth City Council

Official Opening of Exhibition of Miniature Paintings


Opened by Lord Mayor T.E.Wardle, Esq

13-28 Feb 1969 Perth City Council An Exhibition of Miniatures from the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers

13 Feb-8 Mar 1969 Playhouse Theatre Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

Barry J Gordon Jim Smillie, James Bailey

16 Feb 1969 Supreme Court Gardens Free Concert ABC WA Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Martin Soloist

16,23 Feb 1969 Basil Kirke Studio Hesperia Land of the Evening Star by Alexander Turner

Festival of Perth and ABC

18,25 Feb & 4 Mar 1969 Wesley Church, St Mary’s Cathedral, St George’s Cathedral

Poetry of the Churches presented by the St George’s Cathedral Drama Department


Faith Clayton, James Bailey, Anthony Howes

18,25 Feb & 4 Mar 1969 St Mary’s Cathedral, St George’s Cathedral

Poetry of the Churches Part 2 – “Hope” “Faith” & “Love”

The Cathedral Church of St George

Faith Clayton, James Bailey, Anthony Howes

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18 Feb 1969 Octagon Theatre Max Cooke Recital Festival of Perth Committee

Max Cooke at the Harpsichord

18 Feb 1969 Secondary Teachers’ College, Nedlands

Invitation at Official Opening of an Exhibition of Paintings and Lithographs by Corrado Cagli

Festival of Perth Committee and John Gild Galleries

Opened by Dr Salek Minc

18 Feb-9 Mar 1969 Secondary Teachers’ College, Nedlands

Exhibition of Paintings and Lithographs by Corrado Cagli


19 Feb 1969 Seacrest Restaurant Invitation to Festival Banquet

Festival of Perth

19 Feb 1969 Seacrest Restaurant The 1969 Festival of Perth Musical Banquet – excerpts from “Façade” “The Telephone”


Poems by Edith Sitwell, Music G-C Menotti

19 Feb-1 Mar 1969 Sunken Gardens Cyrano de Bergerac David Addenbrooke Neville Teede, Margaret Ford

20 Feb 1969 Basil Kirke Studio Composers’ Workshop Concerts

Festival of Perth

20 Feb-15 Mar 1969 Hole in the Wall Theatre Archy and Mehitabel Frank Baden Powell, John Gill

Doug Foley, Eileen Colocott

21 Feb 1969 Octagon Theatre Max Cooke with the Graham Wood Trio


Max Cooke

23 Feb 1969 Supreme Court Gardens International Fiesta Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Harry Bluck

25,28 Feb 1969 Octagon Theatre The Great Victorians – Festival of Perth Compiled by John Hay Adele Cohen, David

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Readings from Victorian Literature

Committee and David Addenbrooke

Crann, Lionel Farrell

25 Feb-1 Mar 1969 Octagon Theatre The Engel Family Festival of Perth Committee

26 Feb 1969 Octagon Theatre Recital by The Bach Society of WA


27 Feb 1969 Basil Kirke Studio Composers’ Workshop Concerts

Festival of Perth

28 Feb 1969 Winthrop Hall Invitation to Official Opening of an Exhibition of the University Art Collection


Opened by Sir Lawrence Jackson

1 Mar 1969 Winthrop Hall University of WA Choral Society

ABC Conducted by Prof Frank Callaway

WA Symphony Orchestra, Molly McGurk Soprano, Malcolm Potter Tenor, Bruce Martin Baritone

2 Mar 1969 Supreme Court Gardens The Sound of Brass Festival of Perth Committee and R & I Bank

Earl Reeve Compere

4 Mar 1969 St George’s Cathedral Poetry of the Churches “Love”

Cathedral Church of St George

Anthony Howes Faith Clayton, James Bailey, Anthony Howes

4 Mar 1969 Octagon Theatre Shura Cherkassky Recital Festival of Perth Committee

Shura Cherkassky

4 Mar 1969 Embassy Ballroom Dance Pageant WA Dancing Masters’ Association & Festival Committee Programme

Hans Jerome’s Embassy Orchestra

5-15 Mar 1969 Sunken Gardens WA Ballet Company Madame Kira Bousloff Jenny Miller, Luis Moreno6 Mar 1969 Octagon Theatre Shura Cherkassky Works Festival of Perth Shura Cherkassky

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of Chopin Committee8 Mar 1969 Winthrop Hall Festival Orchestral

ConcertABC Thomas Mayer WA Symphony Orchestra,

Shura Cherkassky

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