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1950 Adult Education Board Tours
ANZAC Mounted Division Band Palestine
Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto - first W.A. performance
Battle of the Bands competition
Blackwood
Concerto and Vocal / Instrumental and Vocal Competition / Young Performers Awards - A.B.C.
Copland Clarinet Concerto — Australian Premiere
Debussy Rhapsody for Clarinet and Saxophone - same performance
Dizzy Fingers — Multi-Track Clarinet Recording
Gordon Jacob’s Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Strings - Australian premiere
Grand Dance Carnival — White City
Howard Ferguson's Octet for Wind and Strings - Australian Premiere
Jazz Jamboree
Jazz Symphony - 1949
Jumping Joeys
Mirth and Music
National Fair competition
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Romance for Harmonica and Orchestra - Australian premiere
Richard Strauss Duet concertino for clarinet and bassoon - Australian Premiere
Search For Talent competition
Symphony in Swing - 1950 - “Clarinet a la King” as played by Benny Goodman
The Awakening of Australia Concert 1921
WASO Singapore Tour
World War I
World War II

Sources

A Tale of Twin Cities
Albury Wodonga: The Chosen City
Ancestry
Art and Aria: Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Western Australian Opera Company
Australian War Memorial
Bisset, Andrew, Black Roots White Flowers
Corryong and the “Man from Snowy River” District
Early Days of the Upper Murray
Esperance Yesterday and Today
Friday Mount
From Where I Sit by Jack Brymer
Gallipoli to Tripoli
Grieve, Ray, A Band in a Waistcoat Pocket, (Currency Press, 1995).
Harrison Family Archive
Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia
Identity Prized: A History of Subiaco
Jack Harrison scrapbooks
King, Ivan, Screen and Stars, (The West Australian Newspapers Limited)
Marcia Chayter Diaries
Sacks, Margaret, The Way 79 Who is Who, (Crawley Publishers Pty Ltd, 1979).
State Library of Western Australia
Swan River Pioneers
Symphony Australia 1987: the Concert Yearbook
THE ARCHITECTURE OF IWAN IWANOFF by Warren Anderson
The Art of Architecture: The Architectural Drawings of Iwan Iwanoff
The Art of Clarinetistry
The First Hundred Years
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
The Sunday Times — 13 March 1960
The West Australian - newspaper
The West Australian — 10 March 1962
Touches of Sweet Harmony: Music in The University of Western Australia 1953 – 1998
Trove
Virtual War Memorial Australia
West Australian Symphony Orchestra Celebrating 75 Years
Western Australian State Living Treasures
Westlake, Don, From Me to You: The Life and Times of Clive Amadio, (Bowerbird Press, 1999).
Weston, Pamela, Clarinet Virtuosi of Today, (Egon,1989).
William Boissevain: A Passion for Colour
WWI War Diaries of William Edward Harrison

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Arensky String Quartet

October 19, 2026

1980

Graham Wood and Alan Bonds (violins), Berian Evans (viola) and Gregory Baron (cello).

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