Community Arts Service

This series focuses on the Community Arts Service (C.A.S) and other concerts. Includes administration documentation, correspondence, newspaper clippings, letters and ephemera, programmes and souvenir booklets.

DEW_0007:
Tirau/Lili Kraus 1946 
1.    Newspaper clipping regarding Lili Kraus’ Tirau concerts, 8th (solo concert) and 9th (children’s concert) of November, 1946.  
2.    Handwritten note and typed papers (drafts for article?) regarding Lili Kraus’ Tirau concerts, 8th (solo concert) and 9th (children’s concert) of November, 1946.  
3.    Handwritten notes regarding Lili Kraus 1946 Tirau visit; planning / to-do list, estimations of numbers, people to contact etc.  
4.    Peg Dewes (nee. Barnett), handwritten report, ‘my memories’ of Lili Kraus 1946 Tirau concerts. 
Beethoven Festival (16th -18th June, 1947) 
1.    Collection of newspaper clippings regarding 1947 Tirau Beethoven Festival, ‘Kraus - Pikler recitals’. News advertising the upcoming event, as well as reviews. Putaruru Progress, Vol. 1 No. 2; MusicHo, 1947 (edited by Owen Jensen); Various unknown sources.  
2.    Envelope of drafted letters to Owen Jensen, regarding the Beethoven Festival.  
3.    Brown paper bag, labelled ‘Beethoven Festival Letters’ and ‘Mrs M. Dewes’. Correspondence with various people regarding the Tirau Beethoven Festival.   
4.    Cheque; 27th June 1947; Pay: A. K. Turner, £21.2.3; Beethoven Festival amusement tax.  
5.    Telegram and letter; 31st May 1947; From Otto Mandl to Peggy Barnett, discussing festival arrangements. 
6.    1993; Letter from Audrey Marriott to Peggy Dewes, discussing memories of Lili Kraus concert in Tirau on 18th June 1947.  
7.    Newspaper clipping, November 22nd, 1984. ‘Death of man of action, music – and weather’. In memory of Ivor Hay, mentions his work with a power generator during the Beethoven Festival.

CAS. Tirau (Other)
1.    CAS (Tirau?) members list, 3 pages; Financial / non-financial. 
2.    Forwarded letter from The Secretary of The New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Tokoroa Branch. Dated 23rd September, 1946. Regarding possibility of Lili Kraus concert in Putaruru, organised by the Adult Education Centre, Auckland University.  
3.    Letter to Miss Wyn Barnett from the Adult Education Centre, Auckland University. Regarding sheet music wanted by the CAS in Putaruru. Includes drafted reply.  
4.    Assorted letters/leaflets regarding CAS meetings or events; (1949, Gabrielle Phillips and Owen Jensen recital; 1950, Audition for Noel Coward’s 3 Act Comedy “Blithe Spirit”; 1955, first Drama Evening of the year; 1968, final Members’ Evening of the year.) 
5.    Assorted newspaper clippings; Various CAS Tirau activities.  
6.    Newspaper article drafts (?) for CAS Tirau events; Layton Ring and Donald (?) Rutherford, early music lecture; Richard Farrell (piano); Stewart Harvey and Owen Jensen, First Visit CAS Tour, Tirau Town Hall.  

DEW_0008: Box of assorted CAS documents, dated ‘1946-7 etc.’ Tickets, receipts, notes regarding expenses; Handmade stamp that says ‘Puppets’ (used to stamp tickets?). 

 
DEW_0009/0010: Programmes etc.

Programmes - see Community Arts Service Programmes linked below.