File 02: South Pacific Festival of Arts held in Suva, 1972

MLOH 563/18-45

file

1968, 1972

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Musical Sound Recordings

9661808

Digitised

28 audiotape reels (approximately 55 hr. 30 min.) - 18 cm, 6 mm tape and smaller

Item 01: Music for the South Pacific Festival of Arts
Item 02: ‘Takitimu Poi’ chant performed by Waihirere Maori Club
Item 03: Music for the South Pacific Festival of Arts
Item 04: Opening address by Governor-General and Closing address by Prime Minister
Item 05: Handel's ‘Messiah’ and traditional music
Item 06: Traditional New Caledonian music
Item 07: Festival song and ‘Hallelujah Chorus’
Item 08: Music from Samoa, Tonga, and Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Item 09: ‘Music from the Fiji Islands’, including narration
Item 10: Sound tapes from Allan Keen for Film Track of film South Pacific Festival at Suva Fiji
Item 11: Music played on a celeste
Item 12: Sound effects and other brief recordings
Item 13: Rehearsal of Tongan musician Sione Aleki playing the ukelele
Item 14: Traditional Papua New Guinea Sing Sing
Item 15: Special report on the first South Pacific Festival of Arts
Item 16: Address by the Prime Minister of Fiji to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra

Austronesian (Other), English, Fijian, Maori, Samoan, Tongan

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