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Dame Joan Hilda Hood Hammond (1912-1996)

Performing Arts Programs and Ephemera (PROMPT)

Australian Collection Development

Dame Joan Hilda Hood Hammond, DBE, CMG (24 – 26 November 1996) was a born Australian operatic soprano, singing coach and champion golfer.

She toured widely, and became noted particularly for her Puccini roles, and appeared in the major houses of the world – House, La Scala, the and the Bolshoi. Her fame in Britain came not just from her stage appearances but from her recordings. A prolific artist, Hammond's repertoire also encompassed Verdi, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Beethoven, as well as folk song, , and lieder. She returned to for concert tours in 1946, 1949 and 1953, and starred in the second Elizabethan Theatre Trust opera season in 1957. She undertook world concert tours between 1946 and 1961.

She became patron and a life member of the Victorian Opera Company (since 1976, the Victorian State Opera – VSO), and was the VSO's artistic director from 1971 until 1976 and remained on the board until 1985. Working with the then General Manager, Peter Burch, she invited the young conductor to become the company's Musical Director in 1972.

She joined the Victorian Council of the Arts, was a member of the Australia Council for the Arts opera advisory panel, and was an Honorary Life Member of . She was important to the success of both the VSO and Opera Australia.

Hammond embarked on a second career as a voice teacher after her performance career ended. In 1975, she was appointed the head of the voice faculty at the Victorian College of the Arts, where she remained until her retirement seventeen years later in 1992. In that time she trained an extraordinary number of Australian singers who had successful careers in Australia and on the international stage. Among her notable pupils is soprano .

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Dame Joan Hilda Hood Hammond (1912-1996)

Content

Printed materials in the PROMPT collection include programs and printed ephemera such as brochures, leaflets, tickets, etc. Theatre programs are taken as the prime documentary evidence of a performance by . In a few cases however, the only evidence of a performance is a piece of printed ephemera. In these cases the type of piece is identified, eg, brochure.

The list is based on imperfect holdings and is updated as gaps in the Library’s holdings for these artists are filled. Unless otherwise stated, all entries are based on published programs in the PROMPT collection.

Access

The Dame Joan Hilda Hood Hammond PROMPT files may be accessed through the Library’s Petherick Reading Room by eCallslip request: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3528398

Arrangement

1. Australian performances by Hammond

2. Overseas performances by Hammond

3. Other ephemera relating to Hammond’s recordings, teaching career, scholarships and tributes performed in her honour

The arrangement in each sequence is chronological by year and then by month, week or day. NB. All dating is based on evidence in the programs or ephemera, verified using digitised newspaper searches.

Entries for each program are arranged as follows:

 Year, day/s and month (Venue/Theatre and city)

 Company name

 Name of production (Creator), concert or recital.

 Hammond’s performance role or other involvement.

Other Library holdings relating to Joan Hammond

See also:

 Other programs of Hammond performances within the Royal Opera (Covent Garden) PROMPT file

 Books and biographical cuttings

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 Pictures and posters

 Oral history interview

 Joan Hood Hammond and Joan Hammond information and resources listed within the TROVE discovery service

 Australian Public Affairs Full Text (APAFT) for indexed journal articles

1. AUSTRALIAN PERFORMANCES

See also Digitised Australian newspaper and magazine coverage of Joan Hammond (including promotions and reviews).

1946 14 July; [Town Hall], Melbourne (Victoria) Melbourne Civic Concert: Joan Hammond Associate Artist (pianist) Raymond Lambert. “Under the auspices of the Melbourne City Council” 1 program

1946 20 July; Theatre Royal, Hobart (Tasmania) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond Associate Artist (pianist) Raymond Lambert 1 program

1946 14 August; Town Hall, Sydney () The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond By arrangement with Harold Hold Ltd. Associate Artist (pianist) Raymond Lambert 2 programs

1946 21 August; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond By arrangement with Harold Hold Ltd. Associate Artist (pianist) Raymond Lambert 1 program

1946 19 September; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond By arrangement with Harold Hold Ltd. Associate Artist (pianist) Raymond Lambert 2 programs

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1946 19 November; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) Joan Hammond [proceeds to the Australian Red Cross Society] Featuring Raymond Lambert at the piano 1 program

1949 10 August; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The N.S.W. Ladies Golf Union present Joan Hammond Accompanist: . “In the first of her ‘Thank You’ concerts” 1 program

1949 15 August; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The N.S.W. Ladies Golf Union present Joan Hammond Accompanist: Lindley Evans. “In the final of her ‘Thank You’ concerts” 1 program

1949 26 August; Town Hall, Melbourne (Victoriat) Joan Hammond Concert Accompanist: Bernice Lehmann. 1 program

1953 23 June; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond O.B.E. Associate Artist: . 1 program

1953 25 June; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond O.B.E. Associate Artist: Walter Susskind. 1 program

1953 27 June; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond O.B.E. Associate Artist: Walter Susskind. 1 program

1953 4 July; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond Associate artist: Walter Susskind.

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1953 7 July; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond Associate artist: Walter Susskind. 2 programs

1953 1,4,6,8 August; Town Hall, Melbourne (Victoria) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the World famous soprano Joan Hammond At the Piano: Walter Susskind 3 flyers

1953 19-20 August; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the Sydney Symphony Orchestra In the eighth concert of the 1953 Subscription Series Red Season. Conductor: Eugene Goossens Soloist: Joan Hammond 1 program

1953 28 August; Adelaide Town Hall (Adelaide) Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond with Walter Susskind. 1 program

1953 12 September; Town Hall, Melbourne (Victoria) The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the Victorian Symphony Orchestra In the seventh of the 1953 Subscription Concerts - Red Season. Conductor: Juan Jose Castro; Soloist: Joan Hammond 1 program. 1 flyer

1953 17 September; Town Hall, Melbourne (Victoria) Special Orchestral Concert with the Victorian Symhony Orchestra Conductor: Juan Jose Castro; Soloist: Joan Hammond 1 flyer

1957 October; Princess Theatre (Melbourne) Othello/Verdi The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust by arrangement with Garnet H.

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Carroll presents the Elizabethean Trust Opera Company with the Victorian Symphony Orchestra. Joan Hammond stars as Desdemona, with Ronald Dowd as Othello. 1 program

1960 21 May; Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney (New South Wales) /Strauss By arrangement with Harold Hold Ltd. Associate Artist (pianist) Raymond Lambert 1 program

2. Overseas performances

1942 28 July; (London) BBC Promenade Concerts Featuring Joan Hammond and Cyril Smith with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir .

1942 Commencing 2 November; Wimbledon Theatre (London) Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co. Featuring Joan Hammond, Gwen Catley, , , ; under the direction of H.B. Phillips 1 season program

1942 8 November; Royal Albert Hall (London) Harold Holt Sunday Concerts Featuring Joan Hammond and Moiseiwitsch with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Henry J. Wood.

1942 Commencing 9 November; Wimbledon Theatre (London) Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co. Featuring Joan Hammond, Gwen Catley, Heddle Nash, Norman Allin, Dennis Noble; under the direction of H.B. Phillips 1 season program

1943 Commencing 9 February; Winter Garden Theatre (London) La Traviata/Verdi Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co., featuring Joan Hammond as Violetta Valery, under the direction of H.B. Phillips

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1 program

1943 Commencing 18 February; Winter Garden Theatre (London) La Boheme/Puccini Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co., featuring Joan Hammond as Mimi, under the direction of H.B. Phillips 1 program

1945 Commencing 4 June; Liverpool Empire (Liverpool) La Traviata/Verdi; La /Puccini Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co., featuring Joan Hammond as Violetta Valery and Floria Tosca, under the direction of H.B. Phillips 1 program

1945 9 August; Royal Albert Hall (London) Henry Wood Promenade Concert Featuring Sir conducting, was originally to feature Joan Hammond, but was replaced by Joy McArden ‘due to indisposition’. 1 program

1945 7 December; Royal Albert Hall (London) Concert of Austrian Music In aid of starving Austrian children and Austrian victims of Nazi concentration camps. Featuring Sir Adrian Boult conducting, with Joan Hammond and Alfred Blumen. 1 program, ticket attached.

1945 Commencing 10 December; Wimbledon Theatre (London) La Tosca/Puccini Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co., featuring Joan Hammond as Floria Tosca, under the direction of H.B. Phillips 1 program

1946 3 March; Royal Albert Hall (London) Henry Wood Birthday Concert A performance of Beethoven’s Solemn Mass, sponsored by The Daily Telegraph in aid of the Henry Wood National Memorial Fund. Featuring Joan Hammond, , Parry Jones, George Pizzey, with the Huddersfield Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dr.

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1946 19 April; Royal Albert Hall (London) /Handel Featuring The London Symphony Orchestra with Joan Hammond, , Henry Wendon, Owen Brannigan 1 program

1947 5 February; Theatre Royal, Churchgate Bolton (Greater ) /Gounod Featuring Joan Hammond as Marguerite 1 program

1947 24 August; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon) Shakespeare Festival 1947 Sunday evening concert, first in a series, featuring Joan Hammond (soprano), Ivor Newton (piano), Leon Goossens (oboe) 1 program

1948 17 April; Royal Albert Hall (London) ‘Daily Herald’ Opera Promenade Concert Featuring Joan Hammond, Luigi Infantino, Sheila de Haan, Redvers Llewellyn 1 program

1948 9 October; Royal Albert Hall (London) ‘Daily Herald’ Opera Promenade Concert Featuring Joan Hammond, Marko Rothmuller, conducted by Walter Goehr 2 programs

1949 5 March; Royal Albert Hall (London) ‘Daily Herald’ Opera Promenade Concert Featuring Joan Hammond, Walter Goehr, Eugene Conley 1 program, signed by Hammond

1949 29 April; , Covent Garden (London) /Beethoven Featuring Joan Hammond, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf 1 program

1949 4 – 12 June; Haringay Indoor Arena (London) The Philadelphia Orchestra Eight Concerts for the People by arrangement with the London Music Festival

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Featuring Joan Hammond as a soloist 1 program, 1 flyer

1949 20 – 23 June; Philharmonic Hall (Liverpool) Merseyside Industrial Concerts (Summer Series): Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, First Summer Industrial Concert featuring Joan Hammond as soloist, conductor 1 program

1950 5 November; Royal Albert Hall (London) Joan Hammond with the London National Orchestra Conducted by Walter Susskind 1 program

1951 31 January; Sadler’s Wells (London) Don Carlos The Sadler’s Wells Opera featuring Joan Hammond as Elizabeth de Valois 1 program

1951 12 May; (London) Joan Hammond Accompanist: Walter Susskind 1 program

1952 29 – 30 March; Free Trade Hall (Manchester) The Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52 Featuring Joan Hammond, Walter Goehr, Eugene Conley 1 program

1952 20 August; City Hall (Sheffield) The Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52 Featuring Joan Hammond, conducted by 1 program

1953 27 May; Royal Festival Hall (London) Eight Coronation Concerts Third concert featuring the BBC Choral Society, the BBC Syphony Orchestra, Joan Hammond, John Cameron, William Primrose, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent.

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1 program for third concert only

1954 Commencing 25 March; Palace Theatre (Manchester) Aida/Verdi Featuring Hammond as Aida 1 program

1954 14 October; Royal Albert Hall (London) Mass/Verdi Featuring Joan Hammond as soprano, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, conducted by 1 program

1954 7 November; Royal Festival Hall (London) Joan Hammond, , Norman Del Mar Presented by the Comus Art Society Ltd. 1 program

1955 9 January; Royal Albert Hall (London) International Celebrity Concert Featuring Joan Hammond, , Constance Shacklock, Norman Walker 2 programs

1955 Commencing 12 March; King’s Theatre (Glasgow) Aida/Verdi Featuring The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra Hammond as Aida 1 program

1955 Commencing 29 March; Palace Theatre (Manchester) Aida/Verdi Featuring The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra Hammond as Aida 1 program

1955 3 May; Royal Festival Hall (London) London Symphony Orchestra Last of a series of seven concerts of music by Beethoven. Featuring Willem De Mont, Joan Hammond, Norman Procter, William

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McAlpine, Owen Brannigan, Alexandra Choir conducted by Anthony Collins. 1 program,

1955 22 May; Royal Festival Hall (London) BBC Symphony Orchestra Featuring Joan Hammond, Gladys Ripley, Richard Lewis, Norman Walker 1 program

1955 1 November; Town Hall (Birmingham) Joan Hammond Featuring Joan Hammondwith Ivor Newton at the piano 1 program

1957 31 January; Royal Albert Hall (London) Requiem/Verdi Featuring Joan Hammond, Constance Shacklock, Walter Midgely, Nowakowski and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent 1 program

1957 3 February; Royal Albert Hall (London) Sunday Orchestra Concert Featuring Joan Hammond and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by George Weldon 1 program, signed by Hammond

1957 3 April; Leeds Town Hall (Leeds) Requiem/Verdi Featuring Joan Hammond, Constance Shacklock, Walter Midgely, Nowakowski, Leeds Philharmonic Chrous, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent 1 program

1957 12 June; Royal Festival Hall (London) /Elgar BBC Home Service presents the BBC Syphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. Featuring Joan Hammond, Marjorie Thomas, William Herbert, John Cameron, Owen Brannigan, and Richard Standen. 1 program

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1958 7 – 25th March; various venues Joan Hammond (tour) Programme for tour, featuring Joan Hammond with Ivor Newton at the piano. Cities include Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicester, Sheffield, and Manchester.

1958 13 September; Royal Albert Hall (London) Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Featuring Joan Hammond, , Harold Blackburn, Eric Harrison, The BBC Chorus and the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Vilem Tausky 1 program, signed by Hammond and Charles Craig

1960 28 January; Royal Albert Hall (London) Mass in D/Beethoven Featuring The London Symphony Orchestra and the with Joan Hammond, Monica Sinclair, Walter Midgley, Trevor Anthony 1 program

1961 25 January; Royal Festival Hall (London) Childhood of Christ/Berlioz BBC Syphony Orchestra season, featuring Joan Hammond, Richard Lewis, John Cameron, Joseph Rouleau, the BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent 2 programs, 1 of which signed by Hammond and Cameron

1961 31 March; Royal Albert Hall (London) Messiah/Handel Featuring Joan Hammond, Norma Procter, William Herbert, James Milligan The London Symphony conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent 1 program (book of words)

1961 27 June; Australia House (London) Recital by Joan Hammond Australian Musical Association event in the presence of H.R.H. The Duchess of Gloucester, featuring Joan Hammond accompanied by Ivor Newton Notes on reverse note other people present, including Lady Gowrie, Lady De Lisle, Sir John Northcott, Sire Eric Harrison, Geoffrey Chard, Neil Easton, Betty Smith, Lady Harrison 1 program

1962 17 May; Town Hall Cheltenham (Gloucestershire) Celebrity Recital

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Featuring Joan Hammond accompanied by Ivor Newton. 1 program

1962 6 November; Royal Albert Hall (London) For the Fallen/Elgar Requiem/Verdi Performance of the Royal Choral Society featuring Joan Hammond, Monica Sinclair, William McAlpine, Victor Godfrey and The London Symphony conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. 1 program (book of words)

1963 22 March; Town Hall (Huddersfield) Requiem/Verdi Featuring Joan Hammond, Monica Sinclair, Ronald Dowd, Victor Godfrey and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent 1 program

1964 25 March; Free Trade Hall (Manchester) An Operatic and Lieder Recital in aid of the Freedom From Hunger Campaign Featuring Joan Hammond accompanied by Ivor Newton. Part of the 1963-64 Halle Season 1 season brochure

1965 28 March; Battersea Town Hall (London) Miss Joan Hammond and the New Philharmonia Orchestra Conducted by . Soloist: Ian Wilson, oboe. 1 ‘Winter Season’ brochure for Battersea Town Hall.

2. Other ephemera: miscellaneous items teaching career, scholarships and tributes performed in her honour.

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Index to performances, events and roles

Aida/Verdi 1954 Palace Theatre, Manchester ...... 10 1955 King’s Theatre, Glasgow ...... 10 1955 Palace Theatre, Manchester ...... 10 Apostles, The/Elgar 1957 Royal Festival Hall, London ...... 11 Australia House, London 1961 Recital by Joan Hammond ...... 12 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond 1953 Town Hall, Adelaide SA...... 5 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond 1946 Theatre Royal, Hobart TAS ...... 3 1946 Town Hall, Sydney NSW ...... 3 1953 Town Hall, Sydney NSW ...... 5 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond O.B.E. 1953 Town Hall, Sydney NSW ...... 4 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the Sydney Symphony Orchestra 1953 Town Hall, Sydney NSW ...... 5 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the Victorian Symphony Orchestra 1953 Town Hall, Melbourne VIC ...... 5 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the World famous soprano Joan Hammond 1953 Town Hall, Melborne VIC NSW ...... 5 Battersea Town Hall, London 1965 Miss Joan Hammond and the New Philharmonia Orchestra ...... 13 BBC Promenade Concerts 1942 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 6 BBC Symphony Orchestra 1955 Royal Festival Hall, London ...... 11 Boheme, La/Puccini 1943 Winter Garden Theatre, London ...... 7 Celebrity Recital 1962 Town Hall Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ...... 13 Chilhood of Christ/Berlioz 1961 Royal Festival Hall, London ...... 12 City Hall, Sheffield 1952 Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52 ...... 9 Concert of Austrian Music 1945 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 7 Daily Herald Opera Promenade Concert 1948 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 8 1949 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 8 Don Carlos/Verdi 1951 Sadler ...... 9 Eight Coronation Concerts 1953 Royal Festival Hall, London ...... 10 Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney NSW 1957 Othello/Verdi ...... 6 Faust/Gounod 1947 Theatre Royal, Bolton ...... 8 Fidelio/Beethoven

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1949 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London ...... 8 For the Fallen/Elgar 1962 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 13 Free Trade Hall, Manchester 1952 Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52 ...... 9 1964 Operatic and Lieder Recital in aid of the Freedom From Hunger Campaign ...... 13 Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52 1952 City Hall, Sheffield ...... 9 1952 Free Trade Hall, Manchester ...... 9 Haringay Indoor Arena, London 1949 Philadelphia Orchestra, The ...... 9 Harold Holt Sunday Concerts 1942 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 6 Henry Wood Promenade Concert 1945 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 7 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1958 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 7, 12 International Celebrity Concert 1955 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 10 Joan Hammond 1951 Royal Festival Hall, London ...... 9 1955 Town Hall, Birmingham ...... 11 Joan Hammond (U.K. tour) 1958 ...... 12 Joan Hammond [proceeds to the Australian Red Cross] 1946 Town Hall, Sydney NSW ...... 4 Joan Hammond Concert 1949 Town Hall, Melbourne VIC ...... 4 Joan Hammond with the London National Orchestra 1950 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 9 Joan Hammond, Philharmonia Orchestra, Norman Del Mar 1954 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 10 King’s Theatre, Glasgow 1955 Aida/Verdi ...... 10 Leeds Town Hall, Leeds 1957 Requeim/Verdi ...... 11 Liverpool Empire, Liverpool 1945 Tosca, La/Puccini ...... 7 London Symphony Orchestra 1955 Royal Festival Hall, London ...... 11 Mass in D/Beethoven 1960 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 12 Melbourne Civic Concert Joan Hammond 1946 Town Hall, Melbourne VIC ...... 3 Merseyside Industrial Concerts (Summer Series) 1949 Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool ...... 9 Messiah/Handel 1946 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 8 1961 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 12 Miss Joan Hammond and the New Philharmonia Orchestra 1965 Battersea Town Hall, London ...... 13 N.S.W. Ladies Golf Union present Joan Hammond 1949 Town Hall, Sydney NSW ...... 4 Operatic and Lieder Recital in aid of the Freedom From Hunger Campaign 1964 Free Trade Hall, Manchester ...... 13

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Othello/Verdi 1957 Princess Theatre, Melbourne VIC ...... 6 Palace Theatre, Manchester 1954 Aida/Verdi ...... 10 1955 Aida/Verdi ...... 10 Philadelphia Orchestra, The 1949 Haringay Indoor Arena, London ...... 9 Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool 1949 Merseyside Industrial Concerts (Summer Series) ...... 9 Princess Theatre, Melbourne VIC 1957 Othello/Verdi ...... 6 Recital by Joan Hammond 1961 Australia House, London ...... 12 Requiem/Verdi 1954 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 10 1957 Leeds Town Hall, Leeds ...... 11 1957 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 11 1962 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 13 1963 Town Hall, Huddersfield ...... 13 Royal Albert Hall, London 1942 BBC Promenade Concerts ...... 6 1942 Harold Holt Sunday Concerts ...... 6 1945 Concert of Austrian Music ...... 7 1945 Henry Wood Promenade Concert ...... 7 1946 Messiah/Handel ...... 8 1948 Daily Herald Opera Promenade Concert ...... 8 1949 Daily Herald Opera Promenade Concert ...... 8 1950 Joan Hammond with the London National Orchestra ...... 9 1954 Joan Hammond, Philharmonia Orchestra, Norman Del Mar ...... 10 1954 Requiem/Verdi ...... 10 1955 International Celebrity Concert ...... 10 1957 Requeim/Verdi ...... 11 1957 Sunday Orchestra Concert ...... 11 1958 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts ...... 7, 12 1960 Mass in D/Beethoven ...... 12 1961 Messiah/Handel ...... 12 1962 For the Fallen/Elgar ...... 13 1962 Requiem/Verdi ...... 13 Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co. 1942 Wimbledon Theatre, London ...... 6 Royal Festival Hall, London 1951 Joan Hammond ...... 9 1953 Eight Coronation Concerts ...... 10 1955 BBC Symophony Orchestra ...... 11 1955 London Symphony Orchestra ...... 11 1957 Apostles, The/Elgar ...... 11 1961 Childhood of Christ/Berlioz ...... 12 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 1949 Fidelio/Beethoven ...... 8 Sadler’s Wells, London 1951 Don Carlos/Verdi ...... 9 Salome/Strauss 1960 Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney NSW ...... 6 Shakespeare Festival 1947 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon ...... 8

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Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 1947 Shakesepeare Festival ...... 8 Special Orchestral Concert with the Victorian Symhony Orchestra 1953 Town Hall, Melbourne VIC ...... 5 Sunday Orchestra Concert 1957 Royal Albert Hall, London ...... 11 Theatre Royal, Bolton 1947 Faust/Gounod ...... 8 Theatre Royal, Hobart TAS 1946 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond...... 3 Tosca/Puccini 1945 Liverpool Empire, Liverpool ...... 7 1945 Wimbledon Theatre, London ...... 7 Town Hall Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 1962 Celebrity Recital ...... 13 Town Hall, Adelaide SA 1953 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond...... 5 Town Hall, Birmingham 1955 Joan Hammond...... 11 Town Hall, Huddersifeld 1963 Requeim/Verdi ...... 13 Town Hall, Melbourne VIC 1946 Melbourne Civic Concert Joan Hammond ...... 3 1949 Joan Hammond Concert ...... 4 1953 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the Victorian Symphony Orchestra ...... 5 1953 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the World famous soprano Joan Hammond ...... 5 1953 Special Orchestral Concert with the Victorian Symhony Orchestra ...... 5 Town Hall, Sydney NSW 1946 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond...... 3 1946 Joan Hammond [proceeds to the Australian Red Cross] ...... 4 1949 N.S.W. Ladies Golf Union present Joan Hammond ...... 4 1953 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond...... 5 1953 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond O.B.E...... 4 1953 Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the Sydney Symphony Orchestra ...... 5 Traviata, La/Verdi 1945 Liverpool Empire, Liverpool ...... 7 Traviata, La/Verdi. 1943 Winter Garden Theatre, London ...... 7 Wimbledon Theatre, London 1942 Royal ...... 6 1945 Tosca/Puccini ...... 7 Winter Garden Theatre, London 1943 Boheme, La/Puccini ...... 7 1943 Traviata, La/Verdi ...... 7

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