[Letter, 2000 July 28] Papatoetoe, Auckland [to] Lisa Alcott, Music Librarian, Music Department, University of Auckland. 2000.

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[Letter, 2000 July 28] Papatoetoe, Auckland [to] Lisa Alcott, Music Librarian, Music Department, University of Auckland. 2000.

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Covering letter with a gift of second-hand music to the University of Auckland Music Department Library. Includes historical information on the author's mother, Mrs. E. Oiroa (Oi) Gummer (piano), and Auckland musicians (including several Jewish refugees), in the 1930-1940s. Many of these instrumentalists formed the nucleus of the Auckland String Players and the Symphonia of Auckland. Those mentioned include Ernst Specht (violin), Carl Selinger (cello), Joe Spring (violin/viola), Frank Hoffmann (flute), Frank Hofmann (viola and professional photographer. His studio was known as Christopher Bede), Ina Bosworth (née McNeish, violin), Fenton Sisters (Moira Fenton, violin ; Betty Fenton, cello [Both promoted the Auckland Chamber Music Society]), Alwyn (Olly) Keys (viola and Professor of Romance languages at the University of Auckland), Winifred Stiles (violin/viola), Otto Hubscher (violin), June Taylor (cello), Gerald Lee (music master at Auckland Grammar), George Hopkins (clarinet), his wife Helen Hopkins (née Grey), Owen Jensen (piano, music critic), Professor H. Hollinrake, Chip Stevens (long-time chairman of the Auckland Junior Symphony/Auckland Youth Orchestra), Mr. Reizenstein (Vogel's bread fame) and Lalla Hemus (cello).

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Gummer, E. Oiroa.

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Hollinrake, H. (Horace), 1904-1955

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Hubscher, Otto.

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Stiles, Winifred E.

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Taylor, June, violoncellist.

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Hoffmann, Frank, flute player.

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Lee, Gerald R.

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Keys, Alwyn.

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Specht, Ernst Christian -1801

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Hopkins, Helen C.

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Hofmann, Frank, violist.

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Symphonia of Auckland.

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Stevens, Chip P.

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Gummer, R. Graeme.

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Hemus, Lalla.

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Spring, Joseph, 1927-

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Auckland String Players.

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Selinger, Carl

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Bosworth, Ina.

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Hopkins, G.H.E. (George Henry Evans)

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George H. Hopkins was born on October 11, 1905. During World War II, he served as a clerk at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, from 1945 to1946. He died in December 1973 in Indianapolis, Indiana. From the description of George H. Hopkins materials, ca. 1945-1946. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 320960289 ...

Jensen, Owen

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