Series 1: Nancy Salas papers and other material

MLMSS 11595/Boxes 1-6, 8-29
MLMSS 11595/Boxes 7X, 30X
R 2367

series

1923-1990

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Medals, Posters

9665587

5.16 metres of textual material (28 boxes and 2 outsize boxes), includes photographs, 10 drawings
1 medallion
1 poster

A. CORRESPONDENCE (Boxes 1-6)
Professional and personal correspondence, including some copies of letters sent by Salas. Correspondents include Tessa Birnie, Joseph Block (Professor/Pianist at Julliard), Robert Close, Mark Davies, Christine Edwards, Trader Faulkner, Gustave Fenyo, Eugene Goossens, Sarah Grunstein, Ray Hartley, Margaret Hubicki (Peggy), Miriam Hyde, William Kapell, Joan Last, Dorothy Law, Douglas Lawrence, Wendy Lorenz, Marina Marsden, NSW State Conservatorium of Music, Donald Peart, Kathryn Selby, Diane Selmon, Thomas Wood, Roger Woodward.

BOX 1
Folders 1-8: ‘General letters’, 1930-1979.

BOX 2
Folders 1-3: ‘General letters’, 1980-1990 & undated.
Folder 4: Letters received from family members, 1941-1957.
Folder 5: Letters received from family members, 1962, 1972, 1985 & undated, including one letter sent by Salas.

BOX 3
Folders 1-2: Sarah Grunstein, 1976, 1982-1990 & undated, including letters received, newscuttings, programs.
Folders 3-5: Ray Hartley (and Bob Miller), 1963-1990 & undated, including letters received, some copies of letters sent by Salas, newscuttings, programs.

BOX 4
Folder 1: Letters received from Dorothy Law (and Frieda Agnew), 1953-1973 & undated.
Folder 2: Letters received from Douglas C. K. Lawrence and Kathleen Lawrence, 1948-1952, 1985, 1987, including one letter sent by Salas.
Folders 3-4: Kathryn (and Agnes) Selby, 1973, 1976, 1982-1990 & undated, including letters received, newscuttings, programs.
Folder 5: Diane Selmon, 1963-1988 & undated, including letters received, newscuttings, programs.

BOX 5
Folders 1-2: Birthday cards received, 1980-1988 & undated, especially 75th Birthday in 1985.
Folders 3-4: Get well cards received, 1985, following a fall in which Salas broke her hip.

BOX 6
Folders 1-3: Christmas and Easter cards received, 1977-1989 & undated.
Folder 4: General cards, undated.

B. PERSONAL PAPERS (Boxes 7X, 8-9)
BOX 7X
‘The Music of the Poets: The Musicians’ Birthday Book’ presented to Nancy Salas in 1925, filled with the autographs of family, friends, colleagues and visiting musicians on their birthdays, including John Amadio (with signed photograph), Florence Austral (with signed photograph), Edward Harold Davies, Peter Dawson, Lindley Evans, Laurence Godfrey Smith, Percy Grainger, Jascha Heifetz, Bernard Heinze, Marjorie Hesse, Frank Hutchens, Jascha Spivakovsky, Elsa Stralia, Alexander Sverjensky, Felix Swinstead, Thomas Wood. Includes some inserted newscuttings.

BOX 8
Miscellaneous personal papers, 1946-1990, including Will, 1958, copy of divorce, 1971, health notes, newscuttings, banking and insurance documents.

BOX 9
Miscellaneous printed material collected, 1947-1980 & undated, including workbooks for Spanish language course, travel booklets and maps collected.

C. PROFESSIONAL PAPERS (Boxes 10-21)
BOX 10
Files on Bach’s Two and Three-part inventions; Bach’s 48 Preludes & Fugues; Baroque ornamentation; Putnam Aldrich on Bach; Suites and partitas; copies of published writing by Robert Donington and Thurston Dart; lecture notes on Baroque, 1960-1970, 1982-1984.

BOX 11
Lecture notes on Bach’s Two-part inventions and Sinfonias, 1982; Lecture notes on Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues, 1984; copy of John O’Donnell’s article ‘The French style and the overtures of Bach’, with a letter from the author, 1977.

BOX 12
Files concerning Bartók and drafts for Bartók book; printed book ‘Bartók: a selection of the piano music’ by Nancy Salas, 1981.

BOX 13 Notebooks
Item 1: History 1st year.
Item 2: Harmony notes; students 1932-1933.
Item 3: Piano students 1957; lecture on ornaments to Recorder Society of Sydney 5 August 1957; Procedure class 6; Musical perception demonstration 1958; classes 19 July & 23 August 1961; enrolments 1962.
Item 4: Appointment diary, 1964.
Item 5: Lawson 1st School (at St Joseph’s Convent) 1969; notes 1964, 1967; Licentiate students 1969; article for ASME Journal 1970; lecture on Technique 1977; ASME seminar on Baroque interpretation 1971.
Item 6: Lawson 2nd School 1970; Children’s classes 1970; Stockhausen lecture 1971.
Item 7: ‘Precious book’, 1971 [mostly blank pages].
Item 8: Licentiate and T.Mus.A. examination comments and results, 1978.
Item 9: Comments on performances, 1978.
Item 10: Article for ASME Journal, 1981 (Bartok centenary).
Item 11: Spanish language notes; notes for piano student 1986; lecture notes 1974; group teaching.
Item 12: ‘Bach’ notebook - Comments on Gould; comments on Kirkpatrick.
Item 13: Small notebook, 1967?, including comments on a student’s performance of several works.
Item 14: Alphabetical notebook of phone numbers.
Item 15: Pocket notebook, undated.
Item 16: Notepad, undated.

BOX 14
Folder concerning early studies, references, performances & work, 1930-1955, including reference from Percy Grainger, 1935, programs for Anthony Hordern’s Thursday Musicales, 1935.
Folder concerning National Opera of Australia, 1954-1955.
Folders (4) concerning NSW State Conservatorium of Music, 1956-1990 & undated.
Folder concerning European trip, 1963, including Edinburgh and Salzburg Festivals: journal/notebook and typed transcript of letters written to the Bartok Society from Salas for circulation to members.
Folder concerning lecture by Nancy Salas to Diploma Class, 11 May 1964, reflecting on musical trends observed on her recent European trip.

BOX 15
Folder concerning student concert practice and examination reports, 1968-1987.
Folder concerning recognition for Professor Donald Peart, 1970.
File ‘Salas Consort’, 1971.
Folder concerning Overseas study leave, December 1971-February 1972, including forms, expenses, report.
File concerning Stockhausen concerts, 1973, including correspondence, programs, newscuttings, 1970-1973.
File concerning Mozart Marathon, 1973, including correspondence, program, newscuttings.
File ‘Pascoe Lectures: The Golden Proportion’, 1973-1974.
File ‘Rothan’, including comments on student performances, 1975.
File ‘Analysis’ concerning analysis of Beethoven piano sonatas.
Folder concerning lectures and writings by Salas and others including Sarah Grunstein, Miriam Hyde, Charles Mackerras, undated.
Folder concerning Kyunghee Chung, 1979-1990.
Folder concerning Trader Faulkner and his show ‘Lorca’, 1983-1985.
Folder concerning 80th Birthday concert for Nancy Salas, 1990.
Folder of typescript libretti collected, undated, comprising St Nicolas / libretto by Eric Crozier; Lelio : a monodrama with music / words and music by Hector Berlioz, English version by Basil Ashmore.
Folder comprising loose notes and clippings removed from printed books about music in the library of Nancy Salas.

BOXES 16-17
T.Mus.A. teaching material 1953-1990, including newscuttings, letters, student reports 1979-1988, pamphlets, articles, old T.Mus.A. papers 1967-1981, Paper I & Paper II examination papers 1982-1990, copy of part of Amy Moran’s thesis.

BOXES 18-19
Miscellaneous teaching material, including manuscript music exercises and photocopied printed music, music workbook of Christine Shaw (young student), lectures, letters, articles, clippings, printed booklets.

BOX 20
File Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB), 1956-1975, 1988, including correspondence with Max Cooke regarding pianoforte grade books, AMEB conferences.
File AMEB ‘Correspondence re Baroque lectures’, concerning Broadcast Recital Talks, 1968, including correspondence 1967-1968.
File ‘AMEB Advisory Board’, 1970-1973.
Folder Australian Society for Keyboard Music (ASKM), 1965-1973 & undated.
Folder Australian Society for Music Education (ASME), 1970-1982 & undated.

BOX 21
Folders (3) concerning Eisteddfods, 1963-1990 & undated.
Folder concerning Early Music Association of NSW (EMA), 1977-1990.
Folder concerning Music Students’ Overseas Study Foundation (MSOS), 1968-1976, 1989 & undated.
File concerning United Music Teachers of NSW (UMT), 1976-1985 & undated, including constitution and letter from Roger Woodward.

D. PRINTED MATERIAL COLLECTED (Boxes 22-28)
BOX 22 Music newsletters and magazines collected
2MBS-FM programs, August 1980-March 1981, September 1990.




ABC Weekly, 26 September 1953.
ABC FM Stereo 24 Hours programs, February-March 1981.
APRA Bulletin, Vol. 4 No. 4.
Australian Musical News, 1 January 1923.
Australian Society for Keyboard Music (ASKM) newsletters ‘Key Vive’, 1972-1983.
The Broadcaster, Perth, 8 August 1953.
Musical Association of NSW Quarterly Notes, 1969-1979.
Music Forum, No. 5, 1982; No. 25, 1987.
Music News, Nos. 5-7.
Music Teachers’ Association of NSW Quarterly Notes, 1988-1989.
NSW State Conservatorium of Music staff newsletters, August 1975-March 1981.

BOX 23
Music catalogues collected, 1947-1983.
Miscellaneous printed booklets and magazines collected relating to music, 1962-1984.

BOX 24
Miscellaneous printed material collected concerning music, including circulars, newsletters, brochures & catalogues for various music societies and businesses.

BOX 25 Newscuttings collected
Scrapbook, 1935-1952 [mainly loose clippings].
Loose clippings, 1935-1988.
Clippings concerning Eisteddfods, 1971-1972.
File ‘Charlie Chaplin autobiography and theatre notes (miscellaneous)’, 1963-1964.
Newspapers collected, 1957-1990, including some from 1964 annotated ‘Ponsford’.

BOX 26 Concert programs collected
Folder 1: 1939-1954, including program and photo contact sheets for 1948 New Theatre production of ‘The dangerous sex’ by Joan Gibson, and programs from London 1954.
Folder 2: 1955-1960.
Folder 3: 1961-1962.
Folder 4: June-August 1963, including concerts in Vienna, Hungary, Salzburg, Paris.
Folder 5: August-September 1963, including Edinburgh Festival, some with annotations.
Folder 6: September-December 1963, including concerts in London, some with annotations.

BOX 27 Concert programs collected
Folder 1: 1964.
Folder 2: 1965.
Folder 3: 1966-1967.
Folder 4: 1968-1969.
Folder 5: 1970.
Folder 6: 1971.
Folder 7: 1972, including New York.
Folder 8: 1973.
Folder 9: 1974.

BOX 28 Concert programs collected
Folder 1: 1975.
Folder 2: 1976-1978.
Folder 3: 1979.
Folder 4: 1980-1981.
Folder 5: 1982-1984.
Folder 6: 1985-1990. Please note: Program for Kathryn Selby & Friends 1990 Series is located out of sequence in Box 31X due to size.
Folder 7: undated.

E. PICTORIAL MATERIAL
BOX 29
Black and white photographic prints
Folder 1: Nancy Salas (12), including playing celeste with Marjorie Lawrence and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens in a performance of Salome by Strauss at the Sydney Town Hall, 1951. Also includes contact sheet of 32 images from Bartok Centenary Exhibition opening event and launch of book by Nancy Salas, 7 March 1981 (photographer Don McMurdo).
Folder 2: Students (some signed), including Ray Hartley (with the Ink Spots 1949, with Jenny & Lew Hoad 1956, 1984); Gustave Fenyo (1971); Roger Woodward (1969); Diane Selmon with Claudio Arrau and Nancy Salas; Sarah Grunstein (1979); Margo; Cherie; Rosalie; [Kyunghee Chung]; Helen Osborne; Leone and Fiona Ziegler.
Folder 3: Other musicians, including Eileen Price (before 1950); Walter Susskind (1955); Ralph Kirkpatrick (1972); William Scarlett; [Trader Faulkner]; Bela Bartok (2); Ditta Bartok (1963); unidentified group of musicians.
Folder 4: Miscellaneous, including 2 photographs of participants at the British Anglo-American Music Conference, Lausanne Switzerland (August 1929, photographer Emile Gos); Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (1967, photographer Morris Warman); a cat; a group (Helen, John, Margaret, Marion Carmel); two unidentified children.

Colour prints and negatives (35mm) [stored in freezer]
MLMSS 11595/Box 29/Folder 5:
Items 1-42: Photographic prints: Nancy Salas (5); Leone Ziegler (1); Trader Faulkner (2); Diane Selmon (2); Cherie (1); Ray Hartley with Phyllis Diller, 1985 (2); Kathy Selby with others including Ray Hartley (7); Kathy Selby with Nancy Salas, 1983 (2); Natalia (1); Mardi McSullea, flautist (1); nature photographs from Christine Edwards, 1976 (2); Tamara Anna Cislowska, 1980 (1); Marsden sisters & Kathy Selby (3); posters for Sarah Grunstein’s performance at Carnegie Hall and crowd outside (3); unidentified (4); cats (2); harpsichords and pianos (3).
Items 43-54: Display featuring Bartok Youth Festival poster, 1975 (5 photographic prints and 7 negatives).
Items 55-67: [Bartok Centenary Exhibition, March 1981] (13 photographic prints).
Items 68-106: Service at the Community Church of New York, 19 June [1988] ‘Béla Bartók – going home to Hungary’, prior to the transfer of Bartók’s remains to Budapest (14 photographic prints and 25 negatives).

Box 30X Drawings
Item 1: Portrait drawing of [Nancy Salas] in profile, pencil sketch. Unsigned, undated.
Item 2: Pencil drawing of [Nancy Salas] at the harpsichord. Unsigned, undated.
Item 3: Portrait drawing of [Ditta Bartók?], in pink ink. Signed ‘Rms’. Undated.
Item 4: Béla Bartók in Budapest, caricature in black ink. Signed [Kerwin] Maegraith. ‘Béla Bartók from life’ inscribed on reverse. Undated.
Item 5: Unidentified sketch in ink. Undated.
Item 6: Pencil drawing by Mardi [McSullea?], 1970.
Item 7: Ink drawings by Mardi [McSullea?] (2) & Matthew (1).
Item 8: Drawing of Spanish Flamenco dancer in ink and watercolour by Lyn Williamson. Undated.

F. OBJECT
R 2367
Beethoven commemorative medallion awarded to Nancy Salas, 1970 [described in attached item-level record].

G. POSTER - transferred to poster collection
A concert for Peter Sculthorpe’s 50th birthday, Sydney Opera House Recording Hall, 28 April 1979, presented by the Seymour Group directed by Vincent Plush. Located at POSTERS/2022/9.

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