Richard G. Thew - chorusmaster's annotated vocal score of Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky, published 1950, performed in Sydney Town Hall, 1959

MLMSS 7397

fonds

1950 - 1959

Textual Records, Notated Music

441754

1 folder - 0.01 Meters
Music - (printed score, with manuscript annotations)

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.

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 Sydney Town Hall, 30 June, 1st & 2nd July, 1959, including Richard G. Thew (chorusmaster), Nicolai Malko (conductor), William Herbert (tenor, Oedipus), Phyllis Rogers (mezzo-soprano, Jocasta), Ronal Jackson (baritone, Creon & Messenger), Raymond Beatty (bass, Tiresias), Raymond McDonald (tenor, Shepherd), Moray Powell (narrator), Ernest Llewellyn and members of the NSW Police Choir. Text is in Latin, with English translation annotated on score in pencil, mainly for chorus sections.