• Title
  Item 1: Neil McEwan interview by Vincent Plush
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  26 August 2022
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9670432
• Physical Description
  3 audio files (3 hr. 30 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Neil McEwan recounts his upbringing near Invercargill, New Zealand during the post war period. He talks about early piano and organ influences, including Professor Peter Godfrey, and learning to be a chorister at St Mary's Cathedral and organist at the Royal School of Music, Trinity College, London.
  
  McEwan talks about moving to Sydney, Australia and his various work including, staff in Youth Concerts with the ABC; radio producer and concert planner with Federal Music; organist and choirmaster at St Luke's Church, Mosman; music teacher at Mosman High School and others.
  
  McEwan recounts his experience in France and Germany including studies in Gregorian chant semiology and paleography, choral and orchestral conducting, and studying with Helmuth Rilling in Stuttgart, Germany. He continues to talk about his career in Sydney, Australia, as a choir director at Sydney Conservatorium, an on-air presenter on ABC Classic FM and Fine Music Sydney, and his work on Rimini Antiphons.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, on 26 August 2022
• Creator/Author/Artist
  McEwan, Neil
  
• Subject
  McEwan, Neil--Interviews.
  Choirs (Music)--New South Wales--20th century.
  Organists--New South Wales.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20545877

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