Kokatahi Band based in Hokitika

Bagpipers

Ponsonby Drum and Fife Band

A photo of the Drake family musicians from a poster advertising one of their Concerts.

A few photos of the Edmond’s Band Rotunda in Christchurch.

Ponsonby Drum and Fife Band

Panama City Band Rotunda

Thames Band Rotunda

Rangiora Band Rotunda

A 1929 London College of Music certificate.

A set of London certificates from the 1930s.

Some photos of Edvard Grieg’s house, Troldhaugen in Bergen, Norway.

Le Couppey was a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire for many years.

John Joseph Woods won a competition to set the words of God Defend to New Zealand to music.

Photos from a visit to Sibelius’ home, Ainola 38km north of Helsinki.

Programme cover from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Opera Company tour of New Zealand in early 1941.

A biography of the composer Heinrich Karl Johann Hofmann

A biography of the German composer, Carl Albert Loeschhorn.

Beethoven’s Broadwood piano.

A short biography of the composer, Henry Purcell.

The Vienna Central Cemetery contains a number of graves belonging to composers, some of which have been moved from prior burial sites.

A set of Beethoven pieces that have been in the ABRSM Grades 1 - 5 exams.

Barbara Kirkby-Mason wrote a number of piano tutors in the 20C for both children and adults.

A short biography of the teacher, composer and performer, Marjorie Evelyn Helyer.

A biography of the composer, conductor, teacher and organist of Robert Fuchs, who spent the majority of his life in Vienna.

A short biography of Friederich Daniel Rudolph Kuhlau 1786 - 1823

An 18C London composer of whom very little is known.

Some interesting facts about Haydn.

A short biography of Frank Bridge, composer, conductor and viola player.

A short biography on the composer Buxtehude who influenced J. S. Bach.

A short biography on Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, the second surviving son of J.S. Bach.

A biography of Thomas Attwood, composer and organist, and his children.

A short biography of the life of Elisabetta de Gambarini.

The programme from the Royal Christchurch Music Society’s production of the Messiah in 1975.

A programme from the Royal Christchurch Music Society’s performance of Edge of Shadow, Toccata for Percussion Instruments and Carmina Burana.

The programme from the Canterbury Centennial Music Festival in 1940.

A programme from the Ganddal Girls’ Choir visit to NZ in 1983.

A programme from the Tauranga Operatic Society’s production of Oliver in 1977

Concert programme from the Inaugural Concert Christchurch Town Hall 30th September 1972.

Programme notes for a Bela Siki Concert in New Zealand.

Programme from a production in Napier and Hastings in 1965

The Yeoman of the Guard or The Merryman and his Maid

The Gondoliers or The King of Barataria

Paul Dufault was a Canadian tenor of French ancestry who toured New Zealand in 1916.

Adeline Genee, a dancer from Denmark, who spent much of her life in the United Kingdom.

Trial by Jury was Gilbert and Sullivan’s second operetta and its success generated the writing and production of many more from these two collaborators.

Notes concerning Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta “The Mikado”.

A brief history of Gilbert and Sullivan’s third operetta, The Sorcerer.

The life of Robert William Cary (1848 - 1890), who was a theatrical agent, actor, singer, director and manager Melbourne, Australia and New Zealand.

A brief history of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “Iolanthe”.

A short history of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta “The Pirates of Penzance”.

The history of some early productions of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore”.

Sound of Music Majestic Theatre, Christchurch April 1970

Patience was the sixth operetta of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Savoy operettas.

A history of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “Princess Ida”.

Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta ‘Ruddigore’ first performed in 1887.

Programme from a concert given for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in Dunedin 26th January 1954

A concert in the Christchurch Town Hall on 22nd July 1995.

Jennie West.

An article concerning Sir William Sterndale Bennett as a teacher.

An account of a New Zealand teacher who not only taught a number of pupils piano, violin, singing and elocution but also was deeply involved in numerous community organisations.

‘Miriam, the Young Pianist, Pupil of Mr Lindsay Sloper

The art work on the covers of some of the vintage music is wonderful.

It was at the time, an immensely popular song and is still very well-known today.