Series Series I - Artworks and sheet music

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UQFL668-Series I

Title

Artworks and sheet music

Date(s)

  • 1991 (Creation)
  • 1966 (Creation)

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Series

Extent and medium

1 folder.

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Helen Mills was a close personal friend of Gwen Harwood.

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Administrative history

Affiliated with the University of Tasmania. Rex Hobcroft was the conductor of TUMS from 1961 until an unknown date. Began as the Tasmanian University Choral Society (TUCS) but later changed its name to Tasmania University Musical Society (TUMS).

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‘Pasco – Mexico’, artist unknown, linocut, 31 x 25 cm, undated. Given to Gwen by Edith Emery.

Pencil drawing by Helen Mills, pencil, 44 x 32cm, 1991. Inscribed “For Gwen, with much love from Helen, April 91”.

Eight leaves of photocopied handwritten sheet music, 38 cm, undated. At the top of the first page is the line, 'In the fire, a telegraph pole', which is a line of verse from a poem about the atomic bomb by Japanese poet and Hiroshima survivor Tamiki Hara; subsequent pages have other lines of verse seemingly from the same poem.

Four photocopied leaves of typescript song lyrics to King David (also known as Le Roi David) by Arthur Honegger, 34 cm and smaller, undated; accompanied by program for the performance of the same by the Tasmanian University Choral Society (TUCS) on 13 August 1966.

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Unrestricted access.

Conditions governing reproduction

In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.

Language of material

  • English

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Note

Parcel 1 Folder 2.

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Minimal

Dates of creation revision deletion

Created, Kymberley Bax, 15-Apr-2024.

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  • Parcel: UQFL668 Parcel 1