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study.
On a number of occasions throughout his career, Lilburn was
asked to deliver public lectures, addresses, and radio talks on a
variety of subjects. Such talks include a tribute to Evelyn Page,
37
a birthday tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams,38 an introductory radio
talk to the music of Ravi Shankar,39 a television talk on the work of
Rita Angus,40 a retrospective talk for the tOOth programme of Owen
J ensen 'M' s US1C Ho ra d' 10 magaz1ne, . 4) an d anum b er 0 f' sem1nars on var10US .
topics of New Zealand music. 42
As with the interview of Lilburn by Jack Body published in the
6~~ch4i6~ edition of Canzona, these talks often provide a good insight
into Lilburn's attitudes towards various aspects of his life, career
and music.
To this end, the most important of these talks was his
address delivered to the students at the first Cambridge Summer Music
School in 1946.
This amounted to a personal manifesto of his beliefs
about composition at the time of writing. This talk, and others where
37 Douglas Lilburn, Evelyn Page. Unpublished typescript, n.d. 2pp.
38 Douglas Lilburn, Vaughan Williams. Broadcast talk NZBS, 20
October 1950. Unpublished typescript t4pp. Published as Douglas
Lilburn, Vaughan Williams. Landfall vol.5 no.l, March 1951:57-62.
39 Douglas Lilburn, Ravi Shankar. Broadcast talk,NZBC, 7 April 1970.
Unpublished typescript 9pp.
40 Douglas Lilburn, Text of talk on the work of Rita Angus. Broadcast
in a series of programmes on six New Zealand painters. South
Pacific Television, 1978. Unpublished typescript?pp.
41 Douglas Lilburn, Talk for the 100th programme of Owen Jensen's
Music Ho radio magazine. NZBC, May 1973. Unpublished typescript
Bpp.
42 These comprise:
Douglas Lilburn, Address to stUdents at the first Cambridge SUmmer
Music School, January 1946. Unpublished typescript 19pp.
Douglas Lilburn, Chamber Music - a new look? c.1964. Unpublished
typescript 5pp.
Douglas Lilburn, Address given at the inaugural meeting of the
Christchurch Society for Contemporary Music, University Hall,
Christchurch, 20 April 1967. Unpublished typescript 21pp.
Douglas Lilburn, Address given at the weekend seminar in Auckland
of "The Arts in New Zealand", 13 May 1967. Unpublished typescript
21pp.
Douglas Lilburn, A search for a language. University of Otago
Open Lecture, 12 March 1969. Unpublished typescript 23pp.
Copies of all the above at Alexander Turnbull Library.