Wagner Society in NSW Inc

Patron - Formally Sir Charles Mackerrs*           President - Roger Cruickshank

*The outstanding conductor Sir Charles Mackerras has died in London at the age of 84 after a fight with cancer. The Wagner Society in NSW Inc mourns the loss of this great musician and long standing Patron of the Society.

The Society held its first General Meeting in March 1983. The Society was established as an incorporated association on 15 December 1986 (with alteration of the original Objects and Rules accepted on 31 August 1987. New Rules were adopted in 2005.

Aims

The Society aims to promote the music of Richard Wagner and his contemporaries and to encourage a wider understanding of their work.

Committee

President and Membership: Secretary Roger Cruickshank

Vice President: Julian Block

Treasurer:  Julie Carroll

Secretary: Michael Moore

Members: Dennis Mather, Gabriella Bremner-Moore, Julie Carroll

Newsletter Editor (and Member) Terence Watson

Public Officer: Alasdair Beck

Wagner Society - Chronology and Significant Events

President's Introduction

Our Newsletter editor, Terence Watson, has scoured our Newsletters and produced a list of committee members and officeholders and related historical information from the Society's beginning to the present. I had hoped that we could also publish a complete list of all the Society's members, from Betty Maloney (member number 1) to Tim Green (our newest member, number 933), but unfortunately our recent past includes a period in which records were misplaced or destroyed, and this has not been possible.