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Hammond, Joan Hood (1912-1996)

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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-707081

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Australian Women's Register

Joan Hammond was appointed DBE 1974, CMG 1972, CBE 1963, OBE 1953. She received the Sir Charles Santley award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, London 1970, ‘Musician of the Year’. In 1988 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Recording for the Australasian Sound Recording Association, in 1994.

The daughter of Samuel and Hilda (née Blandford) Hammond, Joan Hammond who was educated at Presbyterian Ladies College, Pymble New South Wales, established an early interest in sports. An expert swimmer during her teens Hammond, transferred to the sport of golf. She won the women's state golf championship for New South Wales in 1932, 1934, 1935 and the junior championship in 1929.

Hammond also played violin for three years with the Sydney Philharmonic Orchestra before studying singing in Vienna in 1936. She returned to Australia for concert tours in 1946, 1949 and 1953, and completed world concert tours between 1946 and 1961. After retiring in 1965, Hammond became artistic director of the Victoria Opera Company (1971-1976) and was then head of vocal studies and vocal consultant at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1975 to 1992. Her autobiography A voice, a life was published in 1970.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Papers of Dame Joan Hammond
    National Library of Australia
  2. A voice, a life : autobiography
    Hammond, Joan, Dame
    [1970]
    Published: Gollancz, London
  3. She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2007]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
  4. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
  5. 100 great Australians
    Macklin, Robert
    [1983]
    Published: Currey O'Neil Ross, South Yarra, Vic.
  6. Who's who in Australia 1996
    Sharpe, Neill (Researcher)
    [1995]
    Published: Information Australia Group Pty Ltd, Melbourne
  7. 1000 Famous Australians
    [1978]
    Published: Rigby
  8. Who's who of Australian women
    Lofthouse, Andrea
    [1982]
    Published: Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW)
  9. Interview with Joan Hammond, Australian opera singer historical recordings of important happenings recorded by 2GB News (sound recording)
    [12 February 1960]
    Joan Hammond on her return to Australia to star in "Salome" and "Madame Butterfly" during the Sydney opera season at the Elizabethan Theatre. 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 7 in.
    National Library of Australia
    ORAL TRC 22/3
  10. Letters of Dame Joan Hammond, Geelong, to H. S. Young, Sydney
    The letters, dated November and December 1967, are addressed to the Superintendent, Radio Branch, Postmaster-General's Department, Sydney. Miss Hammond refers to her application for an Australian Ship Station Licence for the British registered ship, 'Pankina', moored at Church Point, Sydney. Miss Hammond and companion Miss Marriott lived aboard the ship.
    3 items (3 p. in 1 folder)
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 9704
  11. Hammond, Joan, Dame; Papers, [manuscript]. 1928-1994 (bulk 1983-1993)
    [1928 - 1994]
    Diaries, correspondence, biographical notes, concert programs, scrapbooks, press cuttings, photographs, music scores, teaching material for the Victorian College of the Arts, speeches and other papers. The papers relate mainly to Dame Joan's career as an opera singer and teacher, but also cover such topics as: Presbyterian Ladies College, Pymble; the loss of Dame Joan's house in the 1983 Ash Wendesday bushfires; the Australian Opera; the Victoria State Opera; golf; and Dame Joan's friendship with Lolita Marriott. An on-line finding aid is available from the catalogue record
    2.66 m, 19 boxes
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 8648
  12. [Biographical cuttings on Joan Hammond]
    [Press cuttings ]
    National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room
  13. Papers of Kenneth Russell Henderson
    [1976 - 1978]
    Correspondence, typescript of articles, press cutting, photographs relating to attempts to set up a music scholarship fund in honour of Winifred Burston. The initiators of the fund were Canberra musicians Larry Sitsky, Alan Jenkins and Ken Henderson. Correspondents include Marjorie Hesse and Dame Joan Hammond (photocopy only).
    0.06 m, 3 folders
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 7111

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  1. Joan Hammond
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