Musical score, 1957

Containers:: Folio-Box 13
Component identifier:: File Packet 7
Content Summary:: 'Happy Occasion Overture': orchestral score, 1957. New score parts were written in 1971. Written for the inaugural performance of the Australia Youth Orchestra. In its version for four hands, it opened the concert for Hyde's 90th birthday, played by Geoffrey Tozer and Hyde's daughter, Christine Edwards. It was also performed by the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra at the opening of its April 2003 concert.
Immediate source of acquisition:: The collection was donated to the Library by Miriam Hyde in a number of instalments from 1976 to 1996. A further instalment was donated to the Library by Hyde's daughter Christine Edwards in 2021.

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