Australian Music Centre, 1975-88

Component identifier:

Series 15

Content Summary:

In 1975 Murdoch was appointed the first National Director of the Australian Music Centre, an independent non-profit company formed on the initiative of the Music Board of the Australia Council. The Centre, which was based in The Rocks in Sydney, was recognised by the Government and UNESCO as the official national music information centre. It built up a large library of publications, scores and sound recordings, produced a number of directories and other publications and organised concerts and exhibitions. Murdoch resigned as Director in 1981.

This very large series mostly comprises files created by Murdoch, including a series of alphabetical files. They contain an extensive correspondence, reports, agenda papers, financial papers, leaflets and cuttings. Among the correspondents are John Amis, John Antill, Anne Carr Boyd, Claire Bramley, Colin Brumby, John Cage, H.C. Coombs, Clive Douglas, Graham Dudley, Helen Gifford, Rodney Hall, Dorothy Helmrich, Miriam Hyde, Paul Isherwood, Graeme Koehne, Diana Manson, Barry Moreland, Prue Neidorf, Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski, Clive Pascoe, Therese Radic, Tom Shapcott, Kenneth Tribe and Rod Wallbridge.

Other papers on the Australian Music Centre can be found in Series 16 and 17.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Murdoch papers were purchased from James Murdoch in 1991. Further papers were received in 2010.

Names:

James Murdoch

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