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Request for info!

Aug 07, 2009 11:34

At the following page you'll find a link to a page of info on each one of the 60 Intervarsity Choral Festivals held up to the present:

http://www.aicsa.org.au/aicsapedia/moin.cgi/FestivalIndex

I added the page for 60IV a couple of days ago, while most of the ( Read more... )

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tigerdenbodu August 7 2009, 02:57:20 UTC

The PIV FIBS was ORIFICE

pyrrha17 August 7 2009, 03:50:41 UTC

Yep, that's what I thought. The accompanists were Jodie Lockyer and Michael Winikoff, from memory (and from seeing the DVD at 60IV).

pyrrha17 August 7 2009, 03:51:17 UTC

I have a personal archive of all the programmes, flyers, FIBS etc for everything I've been in since 1990 (year 7), including the last 14 festivals, so I should be able to help you out with info (eventually, I can't do it right now). However the last 6 years of stuff is unsorted in a box (I wonder why?!) - that's one of the jobs I intend to sort out next year.

phi1ip August 7 2009, 04:11:20 UTC

Note though that I'm not specifically asking you to do the work, except that you might consider contributing info for the Festivals you were personally involved in running - so as MIV2005 and 60IV are mostly done, would you like to concentrate on MIV1998? (Or were you on any other committees I failed to notice?) Laudate will cover most of the info, of course, but it occasionally is found to be in error. (Any other Festivals from 1999 onwards about which Laudate says nothing at all, you would be welcome to contribute.)

phi1ip August 7 2009, 04:05:58 UTC

But to get the Grand Prize, you also have to remember what the FIBS acronym stood for!

As a brief perusal of the AICSA website will show, I've usually written up each festival from 2005 onwards, while the iron was hot, so to speak.

However, there are still gaps:

* AIV 2006: I didn't manage to snaffle a copy of the concert programme, so I have no idea for most of the soloists' full names, apart from the wonderful Sally-Anne Russell.

* MIV 2005/BIV 2007: although I have concert programmes for these, I didn't have them to hand when putting in names of soloists etc. I can't recall all of the section leaders for BIV, who were separate of the rehearsal assistants that did the myriad sectionals!

* SIV 2008: someone on the SIV committee can fill that page out; my own reflections on SIV's organisation are not fit to be published.

* 60IV: Who were the section leaders? (I didn't pay too much attention.)

pyrrha17 August 7 2009, 07:15:51 UTC

60IV section leaders:
Sop - Kate Gondwana
Alto - Emma Morgan first week, Evil Sarah second week
Tenor - I can't remember! I've even looked at the name list and I can't work it out :(
Bass - Bron Gondwana

phi1ip August 7 2009, 07:20:24 UTC

It was Ben Mullaney, IIRC - he seemed to be the one getting shirty every time someone was missing from rehearsal :) :)

pyrrha17 August 7 2009, 10:30:51 UTC

That was my first thought, but then I decided he was a bass. Der!

Thread 5

unfoldedreality August 7 2009, 09:31:37 UTC

Hiya Ph1Lip,

The PIV website is archived up at http://piv2004.tearle.com/

You will find the answers you seek.

Tried to edit the wiki page but it is immutable.

phi1ip August 7 2009, 09:38:10 UTC

That's right - you need to talk to Brad the Alto to get an account to edit.

Thanks for the website, though I actually doubt it will answer absolutely everything! (Did the website have the acronym of the FIBS? Who were the section leaders? etc etc) Which is why I'm suggesting someone "closer to the events" does the information gathering for each of those festivals - besides, it may well end up being your words that go into the centenary equivalent of Laudate.

unfoldedreality August 7 2009, 11:42:23 UTC

If my memory serves me, Andy Corkill, was the bass leader.

On "Orifice", if I find it, I'll post to the thread.

I'm likely to get an electronic copy of the Orifice soon off Joel.

Anyhow, should organise the AICSA Web Cabal....

nclean August 8 2009, 13:02:03 UTC

Yes, I have hit this problem before.

Can I point out here how bafflingly daft it is to have a Wiki where months after creating an account, nothing has been done to activate any of the users

I'd just like to point out that MonUCS doesn't even have an entry.

Y'know, I'd love to help, but I only have so much gumption. If I have to waste it on crap like figuring out how to contact the wiki manager so that I can use the wiki as a fucking wiki, that's a fair chunk of gumption used up.

Thread 9

MIV 1998 Website winikoff August 10 2009, 21:31:07 UTC

Hi!

The MIV 1998 website is (temporarily) up again at
http://www.winikoff.net/miv1998
(which expands to http://waitaki.otago.ac.nz/~michael/miv1998)

Trivia of the day: MIV'98 was the second IV to have a website. PIV'97 managed to be the first, depriving us of the honours of being first. However, if I recall correctly MUCS may have been the first AICSA choir with a website? (back

Cheers,

Michael Winikoff
Secretary for MIV'98
PS. I also have various other documents from MIV'98

Re: MIV 1998 Website phi1ip August 10 2009, 22:04:59 UTC

Thanks Michael. Would you have a single-file archive for the website available? A little bird tells me there's a web project underway to archive IV websites, and the easiest way to incorporate them is to make a .zip of everything at the root directory of the site. :-)

Someone else may have to contribute the MIV 2005 site, since my copy was on a failed hard disc that I've been unable to get to work long enough to recover any data from (and while in theory there's a DVD backup somewhere I haven't had time to track it down).