Research Catalog

Title

Peter Godfrey : father of New Zealand choral music : an oral history / Elizabeth Salmon.

Author

Salmon, Elizabeth, 1940-

Publication

• Eastbourne [New Zealand] : Mākaro Press, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Description

273 pages : illustrations (some colour); 22 cm

Summary

Peter Godfrey's influence on New Zealand choral music is immeasurable. The only person to have been chorister, choral scholar and director of music at King's College, Cambridge, Peter brought his extraordinary drive and passion to choirs in this country in 1959, developing them to international standard. He began at St. Mary's Cathedral and went on to conduct the Auckland University, Dorian, National Youth, Wellington Cathedral, Orpheus and Kāpiti choirs. The book draws on conversations with Peter himself, as well as colleagues, family, friends and choir members. People such as Sir David Willcocks, Peter Averi, Karen Grylls, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, David Hamilton and Nick Tipping describe a man with a remarkable ear whose commitments to choral music has changed lives. Peter's recollections include encounters with leading figures in the world of music like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten.

Subject

• Godfrey, Peter, 1922-2017
• Godfrey, Peter, 1922-2017 > Interviews
• Godfrey, Peter, 1922-2017 > Influence
• Choral conductors > New Zealand > Biography
• Choirs (Music) > New Zealand > History
• Choral singing > New Zealand > History
• Chorales > Nouvelle-Zélande > Histoire
• Chant choral > Nouvelle-Zélande > Histoire
• Choirs (Music)
• Choral conductors
• Choral singing
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• New Zealand

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Interviews

Note

• "Draws on conversations with Peter himself, as well as colleagues, family, friends and choir members"--Back cover.
• Foreword by Sir David Willcocks.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / David Willcocks -- Introduction -- Bluntisham boy and King's chorister, 1922-1936 -- Denstone College and Sheila, 1937-40 -- King's College Choir and the army, 1941-45 -- King's and the Royal College of Music, 1945-49 -- Marlborough College, 1949-58 -- New Zealand and St. Mary's Cathedral, 1958-61 -- Auckland University tours, 1972 & 1974 -- The Dorians, 1961-82 -- Return to King's College, 1978 -- National Youth Choir, 1979-89 -- Wellington Cathedral, 1983-89 -- Orpheus Choir, 1984-91 -- Trinity College, Melbourne, 1989-91 -- New Zealand Choral Federation, 1981-2015 -- Retirement and the Kāpiti choirs, 1992-2012 -- Peter Averi -- Family: the Tippings -- Honoured by the Queen and others, 1978-2008 -- Those who follow: Rosser, Maskell, Grylls -- Nostalgia Choir, 2004-15 -- That remarkable ear: a conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780994106582
• 0994106580

OCLC

• 946520633
• SCSB-11881043

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library